[Matt17]

On behalf of Team 3044, 0xBE4, I would like to congratulate all of the teams for a great showing at the Tech Valley Regional. We had a lot of high scoring matches and proved what the northeast could really do.

Congratulations to 195, 340 and 4930 for becoming Regional Winners and putting up two amazing scores in the finals.

Congrats to 20, 3624 and 5254 for being Regional Finalists. It was great to see a 5th seeded alliance in the finals.

Now I would like to thank team 1923, the MidKnight Inventors and team 5236, Man O' War Robotics for a great 7th seeded alliance. We worked extremely well together and had a great strategy that put us into the semifinals. Plus, we did very well for a 7th seeded alliance.

I applaud Libby Kamen of Team 1923 for the well deserved Woodie Flowers Finalists Award and Team 250, one of our local teams, for the Team Spirit and Industrial Safety Awards.

I would like to thank all of the referees, judges, the planning committee, the many volunteers, the announcers, and Angry Eric for making this event a success every year.

Good Luck to all of the teams in future competitions this year. We will see many of you at the Finger Lakes Regional next week and hope to see many of you back at TVR next year.