[Ali Ahmed]

Now that the episode has finally aired, I would like to give my thanks for all that were involved. So many people made a big effort to get this done and I am very grateful to them. We had a blast filming. I always love just chatting with fellow FIRSTers and this provided a pretty great opportunity to do that.

Even better was being able to explain FIRST to the crew and extras. They were very interested and asked questions about the robots and what we do and why we do it. They had us run some "matches" for B-roll and it was pretty funny seeing how into it they got. They would cheer any time a robot made a high goal. Or wince when a robot took a Defense particularly hard. They were also extremely patient with us in setting up and trying to get the robots to do the same thing take after take.

All-in-all, it was a great time and I was glad to be a part of it.