[Coach Norm]

Hub City was a great tournament again this year. The volunteers and staff put on a wonderful tournament again. The venue is excellent for an FRC tournament of 45 teams. It was great to get to play with teams from New Mexico, Missouri, Louisiana, Kansas, South Carolina, Arkansas and Mexico.

The competition level was the highest overall it has ever been from top to bottom. The 28 teams that had played previous tournaments raised the level of play throughout the tournament not only in their performance but also in working with alliance partners on game strategy and execution. The teams who were playing their first tournament were well prepared for Recycle Rush.

FRC 2468 would like to thank FRC 3310 Blackhawk and FRC 4799 Lazbuddie Robotics for playing with us to the Tournament Championship. It was hard to believe that FRC 4799 was still available since they had been putting up 5-7 totes every single match of qualifications from the landfill. FRC 1817 RoboRaiders, FRC 2848 All Sparks and FRC 5771 Marfa Robohorns took us to the limit in the finals. Congrats to 1817 and 5771 for moving onto Championships thru wildcards.

FRC 2468 is extremely excited and honored to be representing Hub City at Championships for Chairman's.

Congrats go to George Tan for his volunteer of the year award (all while also mentoring 1817) and to Rachel Moore for her well deserved Woodie Flowers Finalists Award.

FRC 418 Purple Haze received the Engineering Inspiration award. This team has been instrumental in getting a STEM park in Austin for teams to have a practice field for the first time ever. FRC 2468 is thankful to Tony Bertucci and his team for the mentorship and friendship they have provided over the years of our participating in FRC. Tony along with David Yanoshak and Richard McClellan (FRC 2158 AusTIN Cans) were mentors of our team during our rookie season.

FRC 4063 TriKzR4Kidz continued their streak of Gracious Professionalism. This makes six times in their short four year history. Their team was everywhere as usual. Their robot proved to be very useful in grabbing containers off the step throughout the tournament and the playoffs. Shout out to Joshua for manning the web stream and getting each match in short clips that can be uploaded to Youtube and Blue Alliance (we will start on this process on Tuesday).

Dean's List Finalists of Allison Megan (FRC 2410) and Sam Selle (FRC 3310) are amazing candidates for Championships in St. Louis.

FRC 5454 Wild Fire is a great representative of Rookie All Star. They competed well throughout the tournament and acted like a veteran team coming down after their performance at Arkansas Rock City earlier this year.

Shout out to Head Referee Cruz Monreal and his refereeing staff and FTA Joe Varnell on keeping things running smooth throughout the tournament.