[Jeffy]

Thank you so much to all of the volunteers and FIRST officials running the event. Starting Thursday late afternoon it was the smoothest event I have ever been to. It was very nice to extend the practice matches to 7:30, and thank you for that.

We brought with us a team of 42 students. ~20 rookies and another ten previously on team 2334. We were delighted to be the 8th alliance captain and even more excited that 2345 and 1098 were still available. Being knocked out in the quarters isn't usually fun, but we had a 4 year member from 2334 that hadn't ever tasted elims. We had many more cases like this on our team and everyone had a great time. Even so, the 525 + 1730 + 1984 alliance was unstoppable and we almost had you in the second match.

Of course congratulations are due to 3172 on chairmans.

By the end of the regional we were very happy with our tube scoring ability and I am confident we will have a reliable deployment system for midwest. All of our kids are excited and ready for Midwest.

Once again, thanks so much to the volunteers for a great regional.