[118 Tech]

To my 118 buddies,
Congratulations for our best year ever at the Lone Star Regional. Xerox Creativity, Motorola Quality, #4 seed, and Regional Finalists. Great Robot, a transmission, 6 wheels, and mini-me. Me and Josh liked the modifications you guys did to our cart. The two Chevy Malibu front end frames never looked better. Too bad we couldn’t put on the big police lightbar and siren for Nationals. Still those strobes and car alarm worked well at regionals. I never did hear all of Tom’s penguin joke which made the word “RADIO” a big running gag. If you guys want it,I taped the NASA Select broadcast. I think Lucien still has my tapes of the 2000 competition and I don’t even know what happened last year to my tapes of the 2001 competition. Good luck at nationals, ill be watching the webcasts here at Texas Tech dreaming about being there. Ill especially miss the annual team waterfight. Doing stuff like carrying around waterguns in the parks hoping to run into some engineers, like maybe outside the monorail station at EPCOT. Catching them with only a water bottle to defend themselves. (cough VERDEYW cough cough) Getting some revenge for using our stockpile of water balloons that Blake stole from us.

To team 609, thanks for being a great alliance partner. The matches with you guys in were always really exciting.
To the Bomb Squad team 16, thanks for choosing us as your alliance partner. Great robot, best ball gathering bot out there. Those drive wheels with the Chiaphua motors connected to a worm gear that goes through the axel to a planetary gear then to your wheels, that’s just beautiful.
To Sabina, It was nice meeting you(I was the Asian guy in the Robonauts polo). I wish we could have talked more. Good luck to you and your team at St. Louis and at Nationals.