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Team 2068 had a great time at the Virginia regional despite having a larger than usual number of "challenges" to overcome this year. A huge thank you to the NASA Knights (122) and Powerhawks (1111) for selecting us to join your alliance! It was an honor to play with you and hopefully we didn't let you down. It is a very pleasant surprise being picked when you are ranked so far down the list that you don't even show up on the alliance selection box. Honestly I didn't think anyone would take a chance on us.

Thanks to the Mech Tech Dragons (422) for lending us your mini-bot; we were very pleased to see you win the Coopertition award! Also a very special thanks to MORT (11) for lending us SuperShifter parts to repair one of our transmissions; iLITE Robotics (1885) for lending us tools to tap out the dog shaft coupler to repair the other SuperShifter; Norview Pilots (1793) for the loan of the Jaguar; and the RoboRaiders (75) for coming by and offering a hand. All the help sure made us feel like y'all had our backs.

Congratulations to Blue Cheese (1086) on another well deserved RCA! And while we were sorry to see our friends on the top seeded alliance lose in the finals, the winning alliance of Raider Robotics (25), The Pascack PI-oneers (1676), and the Defenders of the Multiverse (1522) certainly earned the hard fought victory. We wish you the best of luck in St. Louis!