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Monty Madness was great! It was awesome to ref (even head ref) with a bunch of my CD friends, and some new ones.
Thanks to 1403 for hosting such a wonderful, organized and all-out awe inspiring event!
Also, thanks to 25 and 371 for carrying us through a victory this early evening!
Thanks to the judges for awarding all our team mentors the Woodie Flowers Jr. Award!
I hope 1403 decides to do Monty Madness II, I will be there in a hearbeat !

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Alright here are a few photos for now, Grayswandir-75 will put some more up later :D

MONTY MADNESS PICTURES

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This is a very inspirational/cool picture.

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With out a doubt the very best of best off season events. I loved every minute of it, from the music down to the openess of the pits to the great people willing to help thats always seen at a FIRST event. Congrats to 1089, 25 and 371! :D

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Better than IRI?

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HA HA HA HA HA! Kudos to you for making me the album highlight pic.

And yes; for all of you who didn't see me in either Atl, Parc, or Monty, I now have Blonde hair.

I think I'm gonna steal* that pic and use it as a WAI.






*with permission of the photographer of course. ;)

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Go Ahead :D


Wait hold on, the first thing you did when you got home from Monty Madness is go on Delphi around 2ish?

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Monty Maddness was amazing :D ! It was pretty smoothly for the most part, and the facilities were amazing!

Thanks 1089 & 371, woot woot!

It was incredibly fun coaching Team 1923 throughout the day, and then reverting back to 25 for finals. Everyone did an awesome job.

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Wow, what a great event! Thanks to 1403 and in particular Dave Kazan for being such gracious hosts! Even with the initial glitches, you worked it out and got it rolling! I sincerely hope you consider doing that again.

Some of our teammates and mentors couldn't make it, so they were watching the webcast and calling me throughout the QFs and SFs asking what was going on. It was so cool you did that.

Obviously, thanks to 25 and 371 for being such excellent alliance partners, and thanks to the judges for our "Woodie Flowers Jr. Award"! Everyone was so excited!!!

The one comment I need to make is -- my wife is going to kill me when she finds out how much MM merchandise I bought. I mean, come on "How to survive the Robot Uprising?" How could you NOT get it. :) I bought about $70 worth of stuff.

Great job, guys!!!

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Chris,

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement both in your post and during the day (even when we weren't quite sure what we were doing during our long day's journey into night :o ). We, in Montgomery and Team 1403, together with about 85 volunteers from FIRST teams and alumni all over (particularly our neighbors, Team 75 in Hillsborough), were working to make the event enjoyable for everyone involved.

We're very happy that we really got a good turnout from the non-FIRST community so that they could get a taste of what robotics, science and technology education are all about. Now when we talk with the schools, residents, and businesses in town, we're hoping that there will be instant recognition as to what we're talking about when we mention robotics and FIRST.

Thanks again to you Chris and everyone who has displayed such "gracious professionalism" at our event. It really is so appreciated.

Thanks, David K.

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I personally was amused by the amount of people that came to watch the swim meet/practice thing that ended up watching us instead :D

I also loved how organized everything was, 1403 did an excellent job with this. Even in times of chaos ;) these guys managed to pull things together and fix the issue.

heres to 1403 and all the Volunteers that made Monty Madness a success

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What A fabulous event, from the moment we walked in, to the moment we left, we had a great time. Team 1403, Thanks for hosting the event, it was superbly runned.

And of course, Thanks to team 1089 and 25 for picking us as an alliance partner, you guys rock.

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monty madness was awsome! lots of good teams, cheap food, cheap merch, helpful volunteers who knew what they were doing. the only thing that was sort of bad was running late, but they made up some time by rushing teams to move faster and by canceling qualification matches and the mentor match.

Good Job 1403 for an awsome event, Team 237 will definately be back, if not the whole team then some of us to help out atleast! :yikes:

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Having that much fun is probably illegal somewhere in NJ. ;)

Thanks for 1403 for being the host, thanks to Dave for setting things up and running it, and a major thanks to all the teams who made Refing a pretty stress free day.

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I'd like to personally thank everyone that came down for a very successful First Time Off Season. We hope everyone enjoyed the event, and we are considering planning next year already (we have a pool in our school, hehe)

I'd also like to give a very big thanks to everyone involved with the media end of it, the webcast, the video footage (HD Video archive coming soon), the audio.

Being part of the Ref crew all day yesterday was not only a honor, but a lot of fun too, I believe Sara, Mike, Liz, Adam, Joe, Jay, and Sky all had a great time in a fairly easy to Ref event. I want to thank all the volunteers on field reset also, those of you that stayed with us all day deserve a BIG thank you.

Dave Kazan, deserves the biggest thank you of all, and if it wasn't for his Hardwork, Motivation, and Leadership, none of this would of happened at all. Thanks again for running the show (and doing such a great job at it)

We knew we didn't have the most competitve event this year, but we did know we could have the most fun at an event this year. And I think we did have the most fun at an event this year.
IRI doesn't have their own Candy Bar


Keep May 19th Open in your calendar's for next year...well maybe