Here we are again, competition week four, Falls Church! Luckily, Falls Church is only about a 20-minute drive away, so we could stay home before our long awaited spring break. Like Blacksburg, Falls Church was an exciting adventure that kept us all on our toes. With 36 teams at this competition, alliance selections and qualification rounds were bound to be more intense. We started off the competition good, we had a robot that could successfully shoot into the speaker and amp and had many familiar faces surrounding us. Unfortunately, our intake bar broke on day 2 after an aggressive hit on the stage. It all got fixed, and we could intake successfully after not being able to intake and using a different intake method for 1–2 matches. The competition went smoothly, and before we knew it, it was 12:30 on Sunday and time for the long awaited alliance selections. If you weren’t aware, we sadly did not get chosen for an alliance in Blacksburg, but was taken in as a backup robot and won Blacksburg with that alliance. This time around, we were the second pick for alliance 7 with our good friends SuperNOVA and Gryphon Robotics! We as an alliance made it to match 10 before we got eliminated. Even though we were eliminated, we were still happy and grateful to be able to compete with our alliance partners. We also won the Imagery Award, which we all accepted ecstatically, as this was our confirmation that we were officially going to the CHS District Championship in Petersburg! Districts will be April 4th-6th, with an exciting three days of competitions! The past 2 months have been exciting, exhausted and an amazing experience for the whole team. As we head into spring break, we would like to thank all students, families, alumni, mentors and fellow First competitors for the sacrifices you’ve made to help this team this year, we wouldn’t be where we are without you. Thank you, and have a good spring break!