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Congratulations to winners, particularly 1405 (I have to support Rochester teams).

Wetzel, you appear to have taken over my job from last year. I'm sure you had as much fun as I did. ;)

An odd thing I noticed, team 16 won the Regional Chairman's Award according to the link. They won the Chairman's Award in 2000 (I believe). Now, I was under the impression that with the new Regional Chairman's Award system, previous Chairman's Award winners weren't supposed to win it again. Did I misunderstand something or what?

Matt

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How many people would be interested in getting a video of Dave Lavery's speech?

If the demand is high enough I might make it available for streaming and/or (a large) download.

If anybody is going to Drexel this week I could put it on CD-R's and give it to you directly. Just ask.

- Sharp

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I would love to see the speech, as I was unable to attend the regional.

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I would like a copy of Dave Lavery's speech. I'll stop by your pit at Drexel.

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No Matt, you did not misunderstand. There appears to be a miscommunication.

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copy from Hall of fame submission post:
I am from team 16 and I apologize for any confusion. At the moment, I am a little confused also. I can not find any documentation that clearly states that past chairman's award winning teams can or cannot compete at regionals. Can someone send me a copy of this letter? As far as I know, we have not recieved a letter that says we cannot submit a chairmans award presentation to a regional. The only thing I have found close to this is in the FIRST hall of fame fact sheet, that says "teams are not able to win anoher Chairman's Award, and the Hall of Fame applications will receive separate review by a panel of judges." The assumption is that this pertains only to championships as the rest of the document pertains to championships. I think the judges at Chesapeake would have informed us if this was not allowed unless there was some miscommunication. Judges at St. louis also inquired of our chairman's submission. Does anyone know of documentation that clarifies this that I am unaware of??? Thanks for your help.

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Even though we didnt win I am glad 1405 gets to go to nationals now. They deserve it.
They were in 3rd seed nearly all the time. Us and 303 just kept jumping between 1st and 2nd all day until they lost the last match.

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I believe team 16, is staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Atlanta, but I'm not positive. I would also like to thank teams 1405 and 449 for the great final matches. This is my first year for being on anything related to FIRST and I never expected something like this. Team 222, 303, and 291 you guys where awesome, and I hope to see you all at Nationals. By the way the cheer we where trying to do with the woo pig sewy...we where calling the hogs our college football team here in Arkansas. It was funny to see the crowds reaction. Thank you everyone for a great time.

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Wow, Arkansas, what a trek, thanks for coming. You all made it a ton of fun. Can't wait for nats, or philly, or offseason, jeez, i can't wait to robot. Thanks for the compliment, you guys were amazing.