One of those late season storms that barges through and makes a mess happened to arrive at just the wrong time. As school was cancelled - I'm sure an upcoming four day weekend had nothing to do with this - students were not allowed to travel. Even though by the early afternoon departure time conditions were just fine. Bureaucracy at its finest.
So our team had to get up darned early the next day and show up for the event with no practice time, no time to tune up the robot or really to do much else. And it showed.
Well, sometimes you just get snake bit. In one match BOTH of our alliance partners tipped over, leaving us in an unenviable 1 v 3 match. Another time a robot crashed into the protective panel hard enough to knock our control laptop clear off the ledge and disconnect us. Flukes. At one point we were down to number 30 out of 34.
But we came back. Eventually we clawed our way back to 9th place and were in the late event playoff rounds. Sometimes called Elimination rounds. And we were.
Oh well. We did well enough to qualify for the upcoming State Tournament. We won a Gracious Professionalism Award for an unprecedented third year in a row. And late in the event we were tapped to put together an event highlights video.
We ended up having to compress about 8 hours of work into half that time, with the main video editor student yawning and shaking his head. Hey, he had been up since 4am to get there (see above).
The video turned out well, and a pretty good time was generally had by all.
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