We arrived early enough Wednesday evening to get to see the layout of everything.  Thursday, we arrived at the Georgia World Congress Center with about 20,000 other participants.  There was no time for looking around.  We had to get our robot inspected and make our judging time.  All the practice Mr. Marts made us do helped because we did better in the presentation than at St. Louis.

As for our robot, we finished the seeding matches with 3 wins and 4 losses.  We could easily been 5 - 2 but we were in the only match that was replayed which we won the first time and barely lost the second time.  Another match a driver on the opponents team got his radio antenna caught in our basket as we were trying to score 35 points and kept us from scoring.  They were disqualified, but their team already had enough points to win without our 35 points.  We didn't think that was fair in the situation, but the refs did follow the rules for the infraction that was committed.

Our capabilities didn't go unnoticed, even though we were ranked about 35 out of 50, we were chosen by the #6 seed team.  In the first match they played with their other alliance partner and lost.  In the second they played with us and dominated the match.  They chose to use us for the third tie-breaker match.  We pinned the goals like they wanted us to do and watched as one of the opponents that they thought couldn't score with the goals pinned dumped a full load on the goal.  At that point it was to late and our alliance exited the tournament.

Just being there was a great experience!  We couldn't have asked for anything better.  After that on Saturday, we moved over to the Bomb Squad field where we got to cheer the Bomb Squad on to a Curie championship and a 2nd pace finish in the world.