The Qualifier

This Saturday was my robotics qualifier and it was stressful but fun. I had barely slept the night before because I had stayed up working on the robot the night before and in the morning I woke up at five and couldn't get back to sleep. On the way there we stopped at Starbucks and I had hot chocolate with a little bit of coffee which was my mistake. We got to the school it was being held at by 8:30 when the practice tables had opened. We signed in and started practicing. The actual competition matches were supposed to start at 10 but they didn't start until at least 10:45. Pretty much since the time we got there till until the matches started I was supper anxious and jumpy because of the coffee. Once the matches did start my team first got paired with a team that didn't even score points so it was only the points we scored that counted. The way the matches work is that teams are paired with each other and for that round they get the collective score. As the matches continued we got to be paired with very good teams from the same place I do robotics and we were doing very well. The only way that we could win was to at the end of the qualifying matches be the team ranked one or two. Near the end of the qualifying matches we got paired with some bad teams but some how we kept second place. In the final match we got paired from a team from the same robotics place and we beat everybody by a land slide. Both of us were moving on to the state competition YEEEAAAHHH. So now I have to start preparing for the state competition which is in March so bye.