[sportzkrazzy]

The Orlando Regional is always jam packed full of excitement and it sure did not disappoint this year. First off I want to thank teams 180 and 4901 for pairing up with us. 180 was the perfect mix of drive-train, ball security and eases of pick up that we where looking for. Spam definitely where the kings of the truss at the Orlando regional. 4901 we where surprised you maid it back around to us. Never missing an auto shot throughout all of eliminations def helped our alliance out a ton, not to mention the shut em down defense that you guys had after teleope started. We hope you come to Florida again as you will defiantly be one of the up and coming teams. The Bionic Spam Squadron alliance was defiantly a force to be reckoned with.

179, 1251, and 79 what a great finals and three really awesome robots as well. We had lots of fun playing against you guys as usual you brought some of the best Orlando regional action and I would expect nothing less from the three vet. first teams that you are.

624, 233, and 1902 it felt really bad to see you guys go out the way you did. I have played along side many of you year after year and I know that you would never willingly and knowingly violate any first rules that you know of to be in existence. I know what type of teams and people you are and have no doubt in my mind that the events transpired as you have stated. When starting my FIRST career as a mentor I looked for someone to emulate, a drive coach to strive to be like, and someone to ask for guidance during my early years. I found this in Andy and I know neither him Kit or any of the guys from 233, 1902 (Zach, Ryan, Brendan, Matt) or 624 would ever violate a rule purposefully. I think FIRST needs to re-exam how they handle this type of situation in the future and come up with a better way of handling it. That is all I have to say about this other than those would have been some of the most intense finals FIRST has ever seen....

801 and 1592 do not plan on stopping here though, its off to the finger-lakes regional we go. With all of our issue sorted out and some improvements being made teams 801 and 1592 will definitely be teams for Florida to be proud of. Oh yeah and then championships after that! =) See you there 180 and 4901. Good luck to all other teams competing in South Florida and to pink in Chesapeake!!!