The Past Few Weeks
We had an incredible season so far.
Our build season was pretty crazy (and therefore extremely fun). Many of us slept over at the lab, also known as Tyler's garage, and stayed up late working. Near the end of the six weeks, we were finished and had a few extra days for driving, testing, and tweaking. Those few days went by far too quickly, and before we knew it, we had to pack up the robot. It was hard watching our robot, nicknamed Sleeping Grandma (for Tyler's grandmother who slept right next to the lab), leave.
The following week passed by, and it was soon time for the New Jersey Regional. We had some problems on Thursday with the autonomous code not running, but thankfully, we were able to fix the code overnight. The next two days were quite strange. We hadn't expected nearly the amount of success we had throughout the rest of the tournament. Team Overdrive was one of the two only undefeated teams by the end of the Preliminaries and had one of the highest scoring matches of the event. Our alliance selections were, to say the very, very least, incredibly difficult. We finally decided on choosing 1923 and jumped on the opportunity to choose 2344. After six incredibly nerve-wracking matches, our alliance came out victorious.
Another week, and we were competing in the New York regional. Unfortunately, we lost our first match, but even so, we continued playing the best we could. We won and lost several more matches, and later accepted the invitation to join 375's alliance for the eliminations. With the alliance of 375, 2753, and 555, we won several rounds but unfortunately lost. However, our team won several awards, including the Design Award. Then we started watching matches and thinking. We wanted to be faster, stronger, better. Almost immediately, we decided on faster intake and output motors. Tyler had an idea to add a fan. Our new ground encoder wheels let us improve our traction control. And now with our new toys, we are going to Atlanta.
Thanks to all the teams that have helped and mentored us. We really, honestly couldn't have done any of this without you.
And most importantly, as a Christian team, thank you Jesus. One of our team's mottos is, "follow the cloud," referring to God leading the Israelites out of Egypt. We have "followed the cloud", and we've gone past all of our expectations.
Can't wait to play and compete with all the teams. Good luck to you all!