The Robozos (AJ's robotics team) are crushing it yet again! They did win a tournament in December, but unfortunately AJ wasn't able to be there. Fast forward to a couple weekends ago, they were in tourney over at our rival school Altona Middle School. It felt like the team started out a bit lackadaisical. They had just built this "new" robot two weeks ago, and they went into the tourney thinking that they would test it out and see how it well it ran. There didn't seem to be a thought that they could actually win with this thing! As evidenced by the fact that they weren't even going to run their robot in skills, meaning that this was the second part of the tourney/your score/your ability to win certain awards. Each of us parents, in our own ways, highly suggested that they at least go try their robots in skills. By lunch -they still hadn't, and when their teacher got wind of this-what do you know...they ran 3 skills right in row! The team was doing ok in qualifying rounds, but had lost to Ryker's team (and trust this is a big deal between brothers!)
One of the exciting matches was when the Robozos unveiled their new blocker on their robot. This thing rises up and blocks the other team from shooting these things called triballs over to the other side. This is one of the bigs way you can score! IT WAS SO COOL! It made us parents feel warm and fuzzy, and like this is the reason we drive our boys so EARLY in the morning to school! They were working on these kinds of things!
Somewhere after lunch there was a tide change...and the boys realized that they could actually be in the running for winning this tourney. They were rated past 10th place (I can't remember what it exactly was)..and when the first place team asked 2 other teams to align and they declined. This team asked AJ's team. They would have been a fool to decline, and accepting was not something they wanted to do either! But they did! The first place team was another Trail Ridge team, whom had "stolen" their robot idea and I guess there's bad blood~! HOWEVER, this team was amazing at driving and this robot idea was better than functional! In the tourney portion, the boys won, and won again, and won again...In the semi finals game AJ ended up driving against a pretty strong rival on the Altona team. AJ was solid! AND they won 118-97! On to the finals..where AJ's buddy Mason had a STELLAR drive and they crushed their opponent 149-50.
WE WENT from wondering if the boys were interested in being there, to TAKING the whole tournament. Since this was Altona's home tourney, and Altona is a highly affluent school with many sponsors, this was a juicy win:) SO FUN! AND so great to be a part of it all!
NEXT tourney States, and then Nationals in Iowa, followed by the dream to make it to WORLDS again!
Let's go ROBOZOS!
-Momma
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