[LeelandS]

There's a lot of teams on this list I'm really excited to see! Not just the local teams, whom I love, but those coming to us from afar!

Since FLR is no longer sharing a weekend with Canadian events, I'm excited that we'll have a stronger Canadian presence than last year. 772 and 2809 are this dream come true! It's great to have 772 back at FLR, after an awesome 2012 season. But I'm really excited for 2809 to make their first appearance in Rochester. Not only are they a great Canadian team, but a close friend of mine and 1126 alumni is going to Queen's University right now and I'm trying to convince him to mentor them. So it'd been awesome to see him again! It's great to see the Canadians coming back this year!

Second, is 176! Aces High is an awesome team, and I've loved their robots the past few years! I'm extremely excited to have them joining us this year!

On a different note, I'm sad to see 229, Division by Zero, and their younger counterpart, 4124, Integration by Parts, will not be joining us this year. 229 has always brought an awesome presence to Finger Lakes, both on and off the field, and 4124, in their rookie debut last year, lived up to their counterpart's legacy. The Clarkson Teams will be sorely missed, especially considering we won't be having some of their members join us. Ms. Libby Kamen is always a pleasure to have with us in Rochester, so absolutely, I'll be missing her presence. In addition, I have 3 friends up at Clarkson University right now who are looking to join the team (A 1507, 1126 and 1405 alumni), and it would have been awesome to see then at the regional. Oh well. 229 and 4124 will be missed, and we hope to have them back in the future!

I can't wait to see the rest of the teams sign up!