Congratulations to our RoboDawg FRC teams on having great weekend – and WINNING – at the West Michigan District FRC tournament. All our teams played well and their robots really performed! Team 216 seeded high enough to be an alliance captain and both 288 and 244 were picked to playoff alliances. This was a 42 team event, and getting all our teams into the playoffs is an accomplishment.
We are really proud of the way our teams work together, and it is exciting to see a team have a really spectacular day. Team 244 has had a number of late nights over the past two weeks, and this team has totally rebuilt their intake and their shooter. They were working until 11:00 on Wednesday night and they were working after school on Thursday – right up until we loaded the trailer on Thursday afternoon. They finished assembling their new (and vastly improved) intake while waiting to be inspected at GVSU. They took that robot out onto the field and kept making it better throughout the GVSU event. In the playoffs they helped the number 4 seeded alliance prove that three really good robots can beat two excellent robots. Their alliance could not have won the event without them being a high-scoring robot. This 4th seeded alliance had to play and beat the #3 seed, the #2 seed, and the #1 seeded alliance on their way to victory. It was exciting to see top ranked programs that are used to winning all the time taken down by three scrappy robots played well. Well done, 244. It took your whole team to get this done. Congratulations, also, to our other RoboDawg team, without whose help they would not have become top performers at this event.
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