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Re: 2014 Tech Valley Regional

358 had a blast at the first Tech Valley Regional!
Great thanks to WFFA awardee Paul Schoch and committee for such a well run first year event.

FIRST teams are always so helpful.
Teams from all over lent us help, from the Rookie All-Stars team 5030 (ranked #2) who 3-D printed a part for us, to our pit partners: 340, 250, 20, 379, the list goes on. We appreciate each and every one of you!

This competition was hard.
Thanks to Southold Team 870 for choosing us, and to our partners Cambridge Team 5236 the Rookie Inspiration winners.
We worked well together. That change out of all our wheels in the semi's with seconds to spare was incredible.

Congratulations to 145,250,3990 who bested us in three very close semi-final matches. We're sorry the wear and tear from those very tough semi's probably made it more difficult for you to be fully operational in the finals.

Kudos to the winning alliance 20, 1126, 229.

Much thanks to the field staff/crew and refs.
You took great effort to get the scores right and you did a terrific job keeping the balls in play.
We know we may have stressed the refs out a bit maintaining clean defensive play.

P.S.
That terrific Mentors Lounge was visited constantly by our team mentors.
Quiet, coffee, baked treats,...
Good place to sew Turkish bumpers!
Thanks to Team 20 for organizing and running that.
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