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Wow, I am still trying to sort all of this out in my mind. First of all, HUGE congratulations to 177,381, and 284. You guys beat us in the playoffs and the competition was very fierce. Great robot, I remember seeing your video up on that wall and thinking "that is a real nice robot," our whole pit was really impressed and even more impressed with the actual thing. Also congrats to the alliance of 486, 222, and 651. That final was a great one to watch.

Miss Daisy did win Drexel Regional Chairmans for the 2nd year in a row and we are so psyched and I'd like to thank all of the teams that helped us in many ways, shapes, and forms. Also, big-time congratulations to our friends at Upper Darby for their Engineering Inspiration Award.

Other thoughts that I had. 272 (Lansdale Catholic) had a really great robot. I also loved the drive system on CHA-bots (1218). After some problems at Chesapeake, it really came together for you guys at Drexel. Also thanks to 1218 and 204 for being in an alliance with us. I felt that we were very, very competitive in our playoff rounds and without a penalty and then a mechanical malfunction (i.e. infernal bad luck) who knows where we might have gone.

BTW, those last comments are not taking anything away from the alliance that beat us, 177, 381, and 284 were fantastic and they certainly deserved to win. Well, that's just what I have to say, I thought that this regional was the best out of the three that I went to and I hope to see everyone at Nats.