Atlanta Championship Update: 4/19/08

Posted by Rachel on 20 April 2008 | 0 Comments

Tags: atlanta, championship

Our final day at the Championship was an amazing one. we got up early in order to get the best seats for our matches today. Our robot performed quite well, but we lost both our matches to some amazing teams. Our final record, then, was 2 wins and 5 losses, placing us 66th out of 85 teams in the Newton Division.
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After the Newton champions, Teams 968, 233, and 60, had been crowned in an intense set of matches, we proceeded to Einstein Field. There, between the presentation of national awards, the best teams in the world competed. Newton fell to Galileo in the third round of a penalty-ridden matchup. Curie beat Archimedes, for a Curie-Galileo final. Galileo's alliance of 1114, 217, and 148 was ultimately triumphant. Our team didn't win any awards, but all those that did were each exceptional in those particular areas and truly deserved to win.
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To cap off the season, after finishing packing up our pit area and crating our robot for shipping back home, everyone went to Centennial Park for the end-of-season party. It was carnival-style, with inflated obstacle courses and activities, games, karaoke, a climbing wall, rides, prizes and food. And then, at the very end, a spectacular fireworks show. Hooray for FIRST Overdrive 2008!