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Re: 2012 Northeast Utilities Connecticut Regional

What a fantastic weekend. Seems like every year CT is just more and more fun.

Before I get into thanking everyone who made this weekend so amazing for us I want to give a shout out to team 2168. You guys were absolutely awesome at NY and were robbed of a chance to play your alliance's full game in the elims, for the same thing to happen in CT is abosluetly heartbreaking. You guys are without a doubt one of the best teams who aren't going to be at championship. 2168 is going to be a team to watch rise up into the top tier of team's over the next year or two. Your robot was great but the way you guys run your team is even better. Also thank you again for your advice at the end of NY, it really helped us come alive at CT.

To our partners:
230, you were awesome all weekend and really started scoring like crazy on saturday morning. We were so happy that you were still on the board when we were picking as the 7th seed. I love your team and I'm glad we finally got to play together.
1559, we thought in the position we were in you would likely be our first round pick. we were so happy you guys were there for us to pickup. You were great all weekend and did not question the strategy in the elims no matter how crazy and different it was for you guys, not every team can make a transition like that so easily and you did a trully great job.

I would also like to throw a very quick thank you to GUS for hooking us up with a pneumatic piston replacement for one of our stingers, we never ended up needing to put it on but it definitely made us feel safer for the elimination rounds. Also congrats to dave for becoming a dean's list finalist. We played one match with you guys and from that I could already tell that you were a great leader and smart student.

Congratulations to the winning alliance of 195, 181, and 20. 195 you are just one of my favorite teams and we had a great time with you guys in the stands and during your team dinner. You were just the most deadly scorer and I'm happy you were able to punch your ticket to the championship. 181, your auton was just plain old deadly. Every single match it hit 2 or possibly more off of the bridge, nuff said. 20, your clearing strategy was great and it was awesome to see you guys pull out the win.

Also congratulations to 1511 for winning engineering inspiration, I love how your team runs almost as much as I love your utility vests and I have admired your team for years, it was great to see you come to CT this year and hopefully you will be back again in the future.

On the note of all the comms issues, starting SF1-2 I believe there was a comms issue in every single match until the end of the regional. I believe Finals match 3 didn't have issues which is good because that is the most important match to be decided purely by the bots on the field putting their all out there. The MC announced at some point that there was an issue with teams and that issue could not possibly be caused by the FMS and had to be the team's own faults. Now this could very well be a series of unfortunate events but I know from personal experience that them saying it isn't the FMS's fault doesn't always mean that, in 09 we were told this and found out after that it wasn't quite true but it was too little too late, the regional was long over and I really hope this does not happen here. I know that the FTA was doing everything in his power to figure out what happened and what the right call here was and I don't doubt his judgement, but I would hate to find out that FIRST found some errors that they were causing that robbed these alliances at their fair shake at the title. This statement is not intended to take away from the winning alliance because quite honestly I loved the winning alliance but it would have been great to see a the fully functional triple balancing alliances face off with the powerhouse ball scoring of the alliance that ultimately won.

I also want to thank all of the volunteers, judges, announcers, and the new MC who, as much as I loved Jack in the Hat, was absolutely awesome, constantly high energy with strong knowledge of all of the teams. I'd also like to thank all the teams that come to this event every year and make it just awesome with their presence, to name a few who I have not yet mentioned there is 175, 1124, 236, 177(sucks to see that streak end), 173, 126, and so many others.

I can't wait to see everyone at St. Louis, I am still kind of in disbelief that we qualified with the last possible award again and that we got to cut the net(#cutthenet), which was awesome. I had a blast at CT this year and cannot wait till next year.
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