[Chris Hibner]

That was a great time. I have very fond memories of that day, and I swear I remember every match.

Somewhere in my house I have an old mini-camcorder VHS tape of that entire tournament run. I remember getting up that morning and telling my wife, "you better have all of the batteries charged for the camcorder, because I have a feeling that we're going to win it all today and I want to have every match on video." I just had a really good feeling that morning. My good feeling came up just one match short.

I remember we had a match against 311 during qualifiers. They were the #1 seed going into the match, and we knew we had to make that match count. We did our usual thing of racing out, grabbing the goals, lifting them up, and then being able to drive where ever we wanted. I looked across the field during the match and you could see the frustration on 311's entire drive team. Afterward I went to the coach of 311 and said something like, "I love your machine - we could do well together," and he said something along the lines of, "yeah... I don't think we want to go against that again." After that I started feeling pretty good about our chances.

Speaking of 190 - didn't they have that great CVT that year?

Thanks for the great memories, Brian.