[Fred Needel]

I want to congratulate ALL the teams that played at the DC Regional. The competition was exciting throughout the matches. Team 768 would especially like to thank our alliance members in all matches for helping us to become first seed, and congratulate our winning alliance partners from 233, PINK and 2377, C Company. Game play in the finals was fierce, thanks to the awesome alliance of 2016, 63, 1708, and 1885. We hope to play with you all in St. Louis.

A very special thank you to Team 340, GRR, who gave us a minibot at the Chesapeake Regional, to replace our broken one. We attribute much of our success on the field to your great design and generosity!

Congratulations also to Team 1511 for winning Chairman's, Gail for becoming the DC Woodie Flowers Award winner, and to all the other teams who won awards!