Great days at Hofstra

Team 5016 had its first competition of the year at Hofstra university. During the practice day things were going well until our intake broke leaving us doing bad for the practice matches. We worked that night to get the intake back up and running and by the start of day 2. The second day was rocky with many losses but the intake worked, until on one auto period we ran our autonomous code and it bashed into a wall destroying our intake. We were out of our next 2 matches fixing but we got back up again for our last match.

We ended up in 46th place going into playoffs feeling defeated. We waited during alliance selection and we were astonished to see our name picked by the Hixville J-birds as their second pick in the 8th alliance. We talked with them and got our gameplan ready for our hardest match against the Kingsmen of kings park. We ended up losing and moving to the loser bracket. We were feeling defeated again but we miraculously won the next 2 matches moving far forward in the loser bracket. We went into our fourth match feeling good but we sadly lost.

This was the end of our play-off run leaving us in 4th place. We watched and waited for awards in the stands after that. After we watched the kingsmen win the first finals match we saw an award go on screen; The sustanability award. They sarted to speak about the team that won “100% increase in team size, and had an entire FLL team join them” we finally heard the words “HUNTINGTON ROBOTICS won the sustanability award.” our chief of business Jordana was extatic as we sat up and ran to the front of the stage to accept our award.

After the rocky first days we ended up in a great place. We plan on taking this momentum to Albany and hope to do great there.