[Nathan Streeter]

A big congratulations to the winning alliance of 71, 48, and 2974, they were definitely a very strong alliance! The finalist alliance of 801, 234, and 1747 also performed very well, giving the winners a great challenge!

Similar congratulations to Chairman's winner, 79... You guys are one of those "Chairmans" teams that can always be expected to be a very strong contender for the award!

I'm really proud of Smoky Mountain's two Deans List winners, Ishi Keenum (1466) and Sarah Bell (1519)! Although I only know Sarah, I can safely say that they both do great things for their teams! Sarah's really grown and become a leader in her years on 1519; she also has helped several FLL teams personally. Congratulations to both!

The #6 seeded alliance - 1592, 1024, 829 - also merits congratulations, they put together an alliance to match any other from the 6 spot! Having the red-card call reversed after several matches for that first quarter-final between their alliance and our alliance (1741, 1519, 451) must've been really hard... Having been on the "wrong" side of a very similar situation, I know it's really rough! The #6 alliance showed that red-card or not, they had what it took! They performed very well, winning the QF's and nearly making it to the Finals (in which I think they'd have stood as good a chance as #1 or #2 did). I hope there's no hard feelings on either side... 1592, 1024, and 829 showed they were the stronger alliance regardless!

For the record, seeing all 6 ubertubes hanging in QF4-2 was great!! :-)

On behalf of 1519, many thanks to the event volunteers and organizers! I believe I can speak for all on our team, when I say it was a great experience, despite our own on-field mishaps!