Team Overdrive in Ohio
After driving across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, & into Kentucky, we competed in our first Qualifying match of the day and lost it 36 > 34! We began to wonder if the 10 hour drive was really worth it...
Then we pulled ourselves together and we won our 2nd qualification match with a score of 76 > 33! But that wasn't all, we went on to win our 3rd qualification match with a score of 49 > 38, our 4th qualification match with a score of 27 > 25, our 5th qualification match with a score of 74 > 15, & our 6th qualification match with score of 56 > 7!! We were excited, but while other teams played 6 matches, we had to play in a 7th match that didn't count towards our ranking. However, we were facing a team that we had to beat to secure the #1 ranking. Little did we know that the very team we were playing against would become our alliance partner for the rest of the competition. We struggled a little, but then won that match and quickly began to review our scouting data to choose our alliance partner. We went up to alliance selection and chose team #38 VEXellent! We were all very excited and in the elimination rounds we got an automatic bye to the semi-finals.
In the Semifinals, we played the best out of three matches against alliance #5 and won our first 2 matches with scores of 67 > 7 & 68 > 14 (respectively). We were going to the finals of the Ohio Regional!!! In the first match of the finals we pulled off a win
34 > 7! We were so excited, but we realized that it wasn't over and we kept going like we had all day long. The second match had a closer score, 50 > 34, but the winners were the same and the #1 alliance had won the competition!! Team Overdrive had qualified for an invitation to Atlanta, but the excitement wasn't over. The announcement came over the speakers that the Inspire Award from the Ohio Regional went to team #74 Team Overdrive!!