Saturday at Marysville was a roller-coaster ride of a day, as we saw our ranking go as low as 39th and as high as 7th. REAPER performed very consistently, but as the draw had it with win/loss record and some low RP matches drove our overall ranking up and down. Final ranking at the end of the Qualification rounds was 14th, which belied a little bit the performance of the teams robot, which had an OPR (Offensive Power Ranking) of 9th overall. Reaper it turns out is a bit of a Cargo Powerhouse, with 324 cargo points over the weekend, 118 hatch panel points, and 147 sandstorm bonus points attributing to that OPR. We would have to get the rest of the scouting information to see exactly how many of those points are directly from Reaper as opposed to our alliance partners. In the end we were selected as the first pick of the 8th alliance and were eliminated, despite valiant driving on the part of our team and alliance partners, by the eventual tournament champs. The team was hopeful that maybe we could still earn a few more points for Safety, or Design, or Engineering Inspiration. But as the evening pushed on it seemed that maybe we would end our season early in week 5 and not progress any further. However, when the announcers started listing the achievements of the Chairman's Award Winner -- A student lead diverse team with a majority of leadership positions held by women, a WOW chapter, efforts to feed homeless teens and their families, and creative use of VR and AR -- it became evident that the winners had a lot in common with US.
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