[jonboy]

As many have said: Congratulations to 131, 58, and 1831 from 885 on your win and making the GSR so exciting and thrilling right to the end. What a great regional! One the best that I can remember: on schedule, reliable field equipment operations, excellent competition, great kids and mentors, and super volunteers, all in spite of the snow and ice of Manchester, NH's winter weather. Loved the Londonderry HS marching band too. Every time I think about FIRST I smile. And to think we were one win away from going to St Louis. So close, but no cigar.

Thanks special thanks to 1519 for including 885 in their alliance. Thanks to our other alliance member 2791. Our alliance had a great strategy and were doing great winning the first match of the finals 49 to 26 until 2791 had a catastrophic failure of 4 Victors in the second match. Inquiring minds are on alert as to what caused the failure. Was it a collision with the bridge or ....? Anybody got a video?

Imagine that 1519's robot was made in a basement by homeschoolers. A very good accomplishment. Special thanks to our team with a lot of rookies who worked together as a team and made it work. A very smooth operation all round. Good experiences for all!