[Dominick Ferone]

First I wanna say great job to everyone at this regional. FLR has to be one of the hardest regionals. It a so evenly matched where every match had points where one little thing made the difference of winning or losing. Some coming down to penalty. Other regionals have it being top 4 sweep easy, but teams were out to the test.

On the behalf of myself and everyone of 5030 we would like to thank everyone who offered tools, parts and services helping us rebuild our robot. It was very upsetting coming out of winning the regional to having so many problems we've never expected or thought could happen. We had rebuilt almost all of our robot across these last 3 days. I'm proud of how hard our kids worked. That being said Everyone was so helpful with trying to get us back in running form. From the robot inspectors to other teams, even ones we were about to play against were trying to help. That's the true message of FIRST and I think many of us experienced that first hand. Also big thanks to 340 and 578 for inviting us over to dinner and greeting us with such hospitality.

It's amazing to see how nice everyone is here upstate here compared to downstate. How close everyone is so caring, communicate with each other so much, and everything else is amazing. It's also nice since where not in the area with all the capital district or Rochester teams but get included so much.

Also fun fact 15 of 49 teams(30.6%) of the teams are going to champs.


We got rebuilt and are excited to see how we do at champs.