Wow, Team DAVE was overjoyed to compete in our hometown at the University of Waterloo District Event! DAVE played alongside other WWFIRST teams, fighting for the chance to take home a second blue banner for the season.
DAVE was the first team to arrive at the venue on Friday morning, allowing us to secure the best seats for our scouts. We played in nine qualification matches over the day, winning eight matches in a row before narrowly losing our last match of the day. DAVE ended the day with a win-loss record of 8-1, setting a new world record of 249 unpenalized in Qualification Match 36 with fellow WWFIRST team, CyberCavs.
We finished qualification matches with a win-loss record of 10-2 and earning our spot as the 2nd seeded team at the event. DAVE accepted an offer from Team 4678: CyberCavs to play on Alliance 1 during playoff matches, rounding off our alliance by selecting Team 9263: ALD Lions.
Alliance 1 went undefeated in playoff matches, setting a new playoff match world record of 249 in Match 1 at the time. On average, we scored 220.4 points in playoff matches, filling the reef and net. After a fierce battle against Alliance 2 in Finals 1 and 2, we emerged as the winners of the University of Waterloo District Event.
This victory marked a monumental 5 wins at the event in our history as a team and was the first time we won an event with CyberCavs, our fellow WWFIRST team. DAVE was recognized for our creativity and innovation, winning the Creativity Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation for the second time this season. We were also ranked within the top 10 teams in the world, sustaining our #2 Auto EPA placement on Statbotics as of the end of the competition.
Thank you so much to all of our parents, teachers, mentors, and supporters for helping us achieve a second win in the REEFSCAPE season. Shout out to our Corporate Sponsors: Benmur Precision Tooling, BR Group Services, BRH Plumbing, First General, Gene Haas Foundation, Melitron, Mitchell Plastics, Quantum Valley Investments, St. David CSS, Westmount Signs & Printing, Woodhouse Group, and WWFIRST for all of your valued contributions. We could not do this without all of our supporters!
DAVE will be finishing off the season by competing at the Ontario District Provincial Championship from April 2nd to 5th at the International Centre. We look forward to playing against the best teams in the province for the last time in the official REEFSCAPE season!
Thank you so much to all of our parents, teachers, mentors, and supporters for helping us achieve our second event win this season. Shout out to our Corporate Sponsors: Benmur Precision Tooling, BR Group Services, BRH Plumbing, First General, Gene Haas Foundation, Melitron, Mitchell Plastics, Quantum Valley Investments, St. David CSS, Westmount Signs & Printing, Woodhouse Group, and WWFIRST for helping us secure our tenth win in team history!