[Justin Montois]

Since Ruckus started nearly 10 years ago, the growth of the event has been awesome to see. This year was one of the best yet. A huge thanks to the planning committee and every volunteer at the event that made it feel like a regional.

To the Canadian contingent and especially our defending world champs 610 and 1241, I'm so glad you made the trip down and I hope you felt it was worth your time. The quality of teams in Canada is incredible and your presence at the event made everyone else strive to elevate their play.

To all other non-local teams that made the trip, I hope you enjoyed the event and will consider returning next year. Spread the word, bring your friends, Ruckus is a blast and the more the merrier.

Congratulations to the 2013 Ruckus Champs and Finalists, you both played great and it's a testament to good design and team organization that you can keep these machines running at such a high level 9 months after they were built and all of the matches in between.

Rochester FIRST is an incredible community and any event in the area that gets everyone together is awesome. I love chatting with everyone, most of whom I haven't seen since Buckeye or Champs to discuss how they felt their season went and what they are doing to prep for 2014.

A special thanks to our alliance partners 3015 and 4001. 4001, we really enjoyed playing with you guys. Your team was very friendly and your robot was awesome. 3015, we are finding ourselves on the same side of the glass in elims more often than not recently and it's always fun. You guys bring a ton of energy as well as great machines. We've won and event and were finalists in another with you guys recently and though we didn't quite replicate that success this time, we definitely had fun.

Thanks again to everyone involved, myself and the rest of Team 340 had a great time and I wish you all the best of luck in 2014!