[PayneTrain]

I'm not going to waste my digital breath expanding on issues like Chairman's judges not allowing us a mentor in the interview room, a strong team at the event violating Admin Manual Section 4.13 while being passive aggressive in trying to swipe seats from our students who showed up to the venue an hour before opening to get the best seats, or a mentor on another strong team calling our can grabber a bad design right before it pulled two cans into the auto zone for more auto points than they scored all event, safety advisors and judges telling teams to shout "robot", and other thrilling moments at the events.

The FTA was great and the field was running ahead of scheduling at a Week 1! The Game Announcing was some of the best I have heard in FIRST, especially considering the play of this game was best described to me by a student as "being forced to watch a building burn down while not being able to do anything about it."

We got to spend some time at Palmetto building in some infrastructure on the machine and practicing in preparations for the big changes we want to make before we play at home. I'm really thankful the students stayed in high spirits despite all the issues we ran into both in and out of our control within and outside the venue.

Have fun at Week 1s next year, everybody.