[DougHogg]

Originally Posted by Libby Ritchie

To team 980...
My husband (Scott Ritchie of 234) gave me details on how you guys did. Sounds like it was quite exciting and you had a great regional experience! Congrats on doing so well and I wish you the best as you continue to compete this year. Your team was SOOO nice to us at IRI and I'm glad I got a chance to meet you! I hope you can come back again this summer to Indiana!

Congrats!

Hi Libby,

It was great to see Scott and all of Team 234 again. It was also very exciting competing with 234 for first place. We were hoping to pick Team 60 ourselves as we have never been teamed up with them, and they have helped us a lot beginning back in 2002 when Glenn came to LA to teach all us rookies about drive trains.

The excitment never let up. After 234 moved into first place, we were even calculating how many points we would have to give our opponents to take back first again.

As it was, we were excited to be able to pick Teams 190 and 1011 and it looked like we might meet up with Teams 234, 60 and 898 as opponents for a very exciting finals. However some other teams had other ideas and it was not to be. Congrats to the winners and runners-up.

Thank you to the Arizona Regional Planning Committee for an awesome event. The Arizona Regional rules.

And Libby, thanks for the invite to IRI. IRI was one of the best experiences that our team has ever had, and if there is any way that we can pull it off, we'll see you again this year.