Greater Kansas City Regional

Hey ladies and gents,

Sorry it's been so long since we've last posted; the build season got really crazy very quickly! But worry not. The robot is in working condition. We've even completed our first regional!

Last week we went to the Greater Kansas City Regional. It was awesome!

Wednesday morning bright and early we shuffled onto the bus, bleary eyed and tired. Thirty five teenagers don't handle early mornings very well. But the busride was fun, as always. We shuttled into Independence, MO with plenty of time to relax and settle in for the next day which would be full of practice matches.

Thursday rolled around, and we rolled out of bed full of anticipation. It was a week one regional, so none of us knew what to expect! Were the robots going to be amazing? Was the game going to be terribly difficult? What were we going to do? All questions were answered in due time. We got off to a bit of a rough start complete with a fried digital side car (Note: Metal shavings are BAD!), but we got all the kinks worked out by the end of the day, just in time for Friday and Saturday's qualification matches.

Over all the matches went well and we ended up placing 10th and through trickle down, we became the seventh seed alliance captain. Sadly, we were knocked out in quarter finals after losing 2 of 3 matches, but all was well. We sat back and watched the subsequent matches, rooting for other alliances.

At the close of the night, we walked away with our heads held high and the Entrepreneurship award in our hands.

Pretty good regional if we do say so ourselves.

And guess what! We have another coming up this weekend! The Boilermaker Regional at Purdue University Friday and Saturday! BE THERE!