[hionwind]

On behalf of team 1678, I would like to congratulate all of the great teams that competed in the Curie division this year. We had an amazing run and were honored to have made it to the Einstein stage.

Thank you to teams 148 and 862 for completing our awesome alliance. You are both a class act and worked flawlessly with us to execute the game strategy.

Also, a big thank you to all of the teams that competed against us in the elimination rounds. 103, 2168 and 4564 put up some strong resistance in the quarter finals and kept us on our toes. 2056, 967 and 3990 was a scary opponent to have to face in the semis. And 4814, 67 and 1918 took us through a roller-coaster of emotions in the finals.

I want to especially thank team 67 for your supportive comments about our alliance and for clarifying the incident that led to our red card.

It was a dream come true for our team to compete on Einstein and putting up the high score (233) for the Einstein matches was an added bonus.

Congratulations to 1477, 610 and 1241. Your alliance was a scoring machine and you thoroughly deserve to be crowned world champs.