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It was great, we had a very high scoring final match, 105 - 59 was very high for both alliances involved. I also ran into some members of 25 and Bilfred once or twice as well

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Thanks for an amazing time guys. It was my first off season event ever, and boy did I pick a good one.......thanks to MOE and Lunatecs for putting on the event......for Rai and Sam and Ilana for "adopting" me, and to all the teams for participating. Congrats to the winning alliance, and to the finalist alliance, and to all the other alliances too.......you all were great.

Thanks to Wayne and Bill for being a great MC/announcer pair, and to Carol for being head referee.

Thanks to Mike for getting the field set up, and working, and thanks to all the referees for doing a great job.

I had a great time, and am looking forward to next year and this season even more!

/dan

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On behalf of team 1089, I'd love to thank teams 369 and 422 for being amazing alliance partners. We had a fantastic shooting bot in 369, a fantastic defense and low-scoring bot (that vaguely reminded me of a snowmobile) in 422, and with us, what I refer to as a "jack-of-all-trades, master of none", it made a pretty well-rounded alliance.

Going into the alliance selection off a 1-4 record, we were very pleasantly surprised to have been picked at all, let alone passing the quarterfinals. And making it to the finals against 25, 365, and 422, all I could do is go up to Wayne C. and say "please don't completely destroy our machine, we want to compete in BE in 2 weeks". When you go into the finals against national finalists and two other fantastic teams with "2/3 working" bot on our end (our balls kept jamming and we couldn't figure out why), you pretty much know how it's going to end up, but we played our hearts out anyway and didn't leave disappointed. As one of my kids said "how can you feel bad getting beat by 25"?

This competition was meant for us to teach some of our new students about jobs done at an FRC competition. We had a small amount of pit scouting, round scouting, etc...we also tried to emphasize improved communication between our students and mentors -- and we did it with flying colors. Coming home with a finalist trophy only pushes some kids harder to do even better in the future.

Thanks to 365, 316, Mike Wade, and all the volunteers who made Duel5 an amazing success!! Our students had a fantastic time, the event ended at a reasonable hour, and everyone was courteous and professional. Also thanks to John LaRock and the announcer (who I forget his name, I'm sorry) for helping to push our upcoming FLL competition (Mission: Mercury)!

Congrats again to 25, 423, 365, and 1980 for "doing the duel!"

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BTW, I don't know if anyone else noticed, but team 1089 got significantly louder after qualifying rounds. That was because the rest of their team finally arrived from taking PSATs. We almost doubled in size after lunch :).

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For my first time at the Duel, I have to say it was one of the most relaxing competition atmosphere's I have ever been in. Carney's Point was far enough away from the city to not be "bussling" and yet close enough to be easily accessible. Everyone was very friendly, and many students had high spirits!

As always a very extended thanks to Mike for his traveling field.

Thanks to Dawgma for letting us run with you in the finals. You guys definitely have an amazing rookie robot, and I wish you the best of luck this year.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Ramp Riot!

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Duel was a GREAT environment, as always. Thanks to 316 and 365, can't wait for next year !! Congratulations to the winning alliance, and a GREAT JOB to EVERYONE who competed !!

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I took a picture of the scores and it was 104... unless they changed it in the end. But either way that's remarkable!!

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It was indeed 104-59. There weren't any penalties or changes.
Finals match 2 was also the highest score of the day.

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Ahh! Thanks! I'm glad someone else took a pic (of the scores) besides me haha. That last round was amazing!!!

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BTW... I was just going through pictures - Miss Delaware was totally awesome! :D

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Ashley:

Thanks for the feedback. Jamie Ginn (aka Miss Delaware 2006) is a real down-to-earth person. Unfortunately, we did not have time to get to know her background better. She loves her hybrid car and has received recognition from the Environmental Protection Agency.

As she mentioned, she is only one of two 2006 Miss America contestants, who are engineers (I believe the other is Miss Wisconsin).

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Team 369 would like to thank "MOE" and "Lunatecs" for hosting such a great event. Our entire team wants to thank the referees, volunteers, and the fellow teams for making our first year at Duel on Delaware extremely fun and worthwile.

Also we would like to thank our teammates 422 and 1089 for being so great. Just the experience of playing with them made it worth being there, and as for the final matches, we couldnt ask for more worthy opponents thanks 25 and 365. We hope to see everyone in BE in 2 weeks.

BTW: We thought we wouldnt be able to play seeing as we forgot our controls at school. :rolleyes: After running around and scouting for parts we managed to stitch a controller of 3 joysticks, 2005 OI, a piece of metal board, and a A LOT of ducktape. Anyway we had a blast, hope to see you all soon!

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Thank you for everyone who came to the Duel! I spent a lot of time with the Vex teams so extra thanks to them! You guys were a lot of fun!

And to all my teammates, the LuNaTeCs, parents, friends, FIRST representatives, Miss Delaware, and everyone else who was there being a volunteer, you were AMAZING, thank you so much for your hard work! A special thanks to Mr. Enslen, it is his mile long spread sheets that ensure everything gets done.

I came back into the FRC competition in time to watch the final two matches (and somehow ended up announcing the last one...thanks Bill!) It was totally awesome watching the 25, 365, 423, and 1980 win. This is the first time MOE has ever won their own event! I know we were all pretty excited about that. Thank you 25, 523, and 1980 for helping us do that!

SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!

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Team 1980 would like to thank 365 and 25 and all of our opponents and alliance members throughout the day. The duel was a great experience and really got our team excited about FIRST.
and big thanks to Ron Karpinski and team 225, who let us borrow their robot for the day.

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Team 1980 would also like to thank Teams 365 and 316 for hosting a terrific event, Mike Wade for the arena , the entertaining announcers, the very fair referees and the legions of volunteers. Our goal walking in was to expose this pre-rookie team and their parents to what a FIRST competition was all about. This of course would not have been possible without the graciousness of team 225 and their mentor for lending us their robot.

It was an enormous thrill to be able to join teams 365, 25 and 423 as part of the winning alliance. What a memorable day!