[Brandon Holley]

Now that I've had a chance to recover, I'd like to thank a few people and teams for helping make Arizona North a very great experience for the NUTRONs.

First, to our alliance partners, 2122 and 498, it was an absolute pleasure getting to work together and getting to know your teams. We'd love to play with either of you again someday.

Congratulations to 1619 on the well-deserved Chairman's award. You all are a class act and we were happy a deserving team took home the award.

I'd also like to take a chance to personally thank teams 842, 2493 and 1165. On our way out to Flagstaff, we were caught in a 5 hour delay at the Houston airport. During the delay all of our equipment was left on the tarmac in a thunderstorm. The result was several inches of standing water in each of our totes. We lost our power tools and much of our material in the process (tapes, foam, etc). Our tools were covered in rust, were soggy, some non-functional (see below for how we spent Thursday morning, drying out all of our stuff). These teams really went above and beyond and helped us out - we're very thankful and hope we can repay the favor someday (albeit under different circumstances ).

The 'Big Dry Out':


Congrats to everyone, we had a great time in Flagstaff. Arizona has always treated us well - we look forward to coming back again someday.

P.S. The team got to take a trip to the Grand Canyon on Sunday, we brought the blue banner along for an awesome team photo.



-Brando