Yesterday our team was notified that a spot had opened up at the Walnut Creek Qualifier that was going to be held the following day. After deliberating, we decided to go just for fun, as a last hurrah before officially going offseason. We were able to pull together a skeleton crew of 6 members.
This qualifier ended up being a major milestone for our team! Our robot performed consistently and scored well for our alliance partners–well enough to be 4th seed (4th place) in the qualification rounds. This put us in a position to select our alliance partner for the semifinals, and have a chance at getting into finals and thus qualifying for regionals.
After advancing through the semi-finals, Omega unfortunately lost the extremely close final, but nevertheless we are proud of getting this far–the farthest we’ve ever gone in Omega history.
We won the following awards:
- Finalist Alliance Captain
- Think Award
- Inspire Award, 1st Runner Up
- Control Award, 1st Runner Up
- Connect Award, 2nd Runner Up
We are so proud of our entire team for working hard to constantly improve the robot and code, specifically: Nidhir Guggilla (Captain), Justin Do (Co-Captain), Tommy Vo Tran (Programming Lead), Trinity Chen (Mechanical Lead), and our mentor, Kevin, who was very busy that day but still showed up in support. We would also like to thank our parents for supporting us in this last-minute endeavor and throughout the season. Lastly, we would like to thank our semi-finals and finals alliance partner, Team Future 14473.
Next stop: Regionals! (If we are lucky and win the lottery!)
Pictures are below.
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