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Actually,

"Sir Charles" as you call him does have quite a bit of FIRST experience on one of the GM teams (can't remember which one). He just retired from GM here in Atlanta and was the announcer for Peachtree. I laugh evertime I read the quote like "They're going for the hookup baby!" He is very enthusiastic if anything :).

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All i can say is Dave V's enterance was awesome, i mean who else can pull off (no pun intended) the blues brothers enterance and still be taken serious!

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In Arizona Blair and Dan Green paired together to create one awesome combo of MC/Announcer. I still think Blaire is possibly one of the coolest people in FIRST.

As for the Newton field. Normally, I am not the type of person to love high-energy announcers at competitions, especially those doing play by play. I've always kind of liked them being as simple as possible. However, the announcer on Newton wowed me. If FIRST is trying to get more people in the stands at the competitions and therefore spread the word of FIRST, this guy will be a HUGE help in accomplishing these goals. Before every match, I got a little smile on my face because he announced "Team 234 Cyber Blue all the way from Indianapolis...what's up Nap-Town?!" I loved it...absolutely hilarious.

I had the pleasure of personally meeting Dave at FIRST HQ last year. He's a great guy and one of the best sources of Inspiration within FIRST. As far as an MC...he knows more about FIRST teams than any announcer I have ever heard in FIRST. It seemed like every match of the finals he knew more and more about each team. He's simply outstanding.

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Mark Leon is awesome, both on and off the field.

Anyone who thinks otherwise can feel free to leave now :-D

Cory

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As a midwester, I am absolutely partial to Dave Verbrugge and Dan Greene. Those guys just rock my socks. However, Blair, Ron, Mark, and the many others who contributed did a great job... I was blown away at everyone's ability to keep the crowds entertained and aware of what was going on. Here's a big round of applause... and we'll see you guys all back next year!

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Which division, if any, had the NASA announcer from the Pacific Northwest regional?

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Curie, and his name is Mark Leon.

Cory

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He's awesome!

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I have to agree with SilverStar, Mark Leon was an awesome anouncer at the Pacific Northwest Regional!

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Who was the announcer from the MWR...he was awesome.

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Well, I love Blair. Only, all of his wonderful "bridesmaid" comments have doomed our team. haha. Anyway, when he and Don Knight paired up for Phoenix and Denver, they were making plans to keep working together.

From what I saw of Galileo, they did awesome. I really like them. They're great people, both on and off the field.

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MARK AND STEVE! MARK AND STEVE!

(For anyone who was watching Curie, we were the ones that always went up and banged on the plastic shielding with Mark when we were announced. And we had him wear our lab coat :D )

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I have worked with Dave Verbrugge., Steve Warren., and Dan Green and I watched Sir Charles at Newton. Please see my comments regarding Sir Charles in this post: Sir Charles

With regard to Dave Verbrugge (MC, not announcer): he is an awesome MC and a great person. He came up with the Blues brothers routine at Great Lakes this year and it was absolutely hilarious. The reason he is the most knowledgeable about teams is he does his homework. He has a notebook that contains all the information on every team at an event he is MCing. He also goes around to teams and asks questions to get himself prepared.

Steve Warren is a long time announcing veteran from Canada who sets the announcing standard for initiating crowd participation. I had the pleasure of being the MC at Detroit when we was the announcer and we had a blast. We did dual announcing during the eliminations and he was very funny. I look forward to working with him in the future.

Dan Green is also a very seasoned announcer and has done some MCing, too. He comes from the Blair school of announcing: announce standing up and keep moving .. don't sit down. His play by play is the FIRST standard and he was the example I used when preparing for Great Lakes.

I'm sure all of these guys were outstanding at the Championship and I thank them for volunteering their time.

-Paul

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I thought Dan did a nice job when he was announcing at Archimedes - awesome play-by-play and knowledge of the game. BUT... he appears to have picked up quirks in his communication style. Every once in a while he says things that just don't seem ... normal. I suppose its possible that he just has a more versatile vocabulary than me, but sometimes I can't keep up with his repartee.

I hope he sticks with it, though, cause he's pretty good.

:)

Ken

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Well I actually kinda liked that... I just have respect for anyone willing to put themselves out there to try to get other people involved. I know firsthand how incredibly difficult that is.