The last day of the Granite State Regional was extraordinarily exhilarating and made the MAYHEM of the build season worth it! After finally completing all of the qualifying rounds and their replays, as well as the subsequent alliance selection everyone was eager to progress to the quarter-finals! Unfortunately we then found out that the last match had not been correctly entered into the system before the alliance selection, and it would have to be done over.

That was eventually completed and allied with The Red Devils (87), and Kaizen Blitz (1276), we commenced the quarter-finals prepared for thrilling competition and the challenges to come! We were defeated in both of our quarter-final rounds. The finals concluded with the victory of the Rhode Warriors (121), Buzz Robotics (175), and The Bucs (2621)! Congratulations to these phenomenal teams!

After the last round of the day, the awards ceremony took place. We concluded the long day with winning the prestigious Chairman's Award! We were extremely excited about this because we did not expect to win. You can watch our video that we submitted on our videos page. We are now eagerly awaiting our trip to Atlanta in April! In the meantime, we will be spending the next few weeks fund-raising and preparing for Championships. This past weekend was immensely rewarding!

Furthermore, we'd like to express our appreciation to Kaizen Blitz and The Red Devils for their partnership with us at the Granite State Regional!

Wow! Two days of the Granite State Regional have already gone by! We got our camera tracking working today and we are improving with practice. We went 4-2 in today's matches and ended the day seeded 10th.

Also, at today's award ceremony, this website was awarded the Website Award! In the Judges words: "The Website Award Recognizes excellence in student-designedl, built and managed FIRST team websites. ... An awesome team has been selected to win this award." We are very excited about this and are eager to compete in tomorrow's competition.

Thanks to BAE Systems and the Tough Techs team for the Unveiling event they hosted last night!

Lots of teams were there, and more of the robots were at least partially functional than in some previous years, with several pretty much complete! Lots of interesting drive and shooter designs were unveiled. We can't wait to see how well the different ideas work.

We were among those that did not have everything working together yet; work continued after the unveiling event concluded, and is getting closer to around the clock...

Its hard to believe that ship time is less than 100 hours away!

January is here! A new year! A new game!

Some elements of Lunacy (throwing and shooting balls) seems rather familiar, but the slippery floor is indeed quite a spin.

We finished off the Overdrive season with River Rage, in Manchester. We were allowed to compete with both Fezzik and SpeedRacer, (With many thanks to the River Rage organizers!) and most of the team had a crack at the controls of one or the other. SpeedRacer ended up leading the #2 alliance, and Fezzik the #6 alliance. Both alliances won some excellent playoff matches, but stumbled against alliances led by Trinity (40) and the Rhode Warriors (121).

We took SpeedRacer and a skeleton crew to Bear Brawl and Bash @ the Beach. What a treat to have a robot and support materials that fit in a car trunk!

Finally out from under Fezzik's shadow, the SpeedRacer proved to be a surprisingly high scorer and a crowd favorite. We left Bash @ the Beach with two extremely appropriate awards, "Teacher's Pet" and "Blazing Bots: Driven Like it was Stolen"

After IRI we must have been worn out! All of the seniors from last year moved on to their new adventures, and the team seemed a lot smaller! Things were rather quiet at Mayhem Central until fall.