I have worked with Dave Verbrugge., Steve Warren., and Dan Green and I watched Sir Charles at Newton. Please see my comments regarding Sir Charles in this post:
Sir Charles
With regard to Dave Verbrugge (MC, not announcer): he is an awesome MC and a great person. He came up with the Blues brothers routine at Great Lakes this year and it was absolutely hilarious. The reason he is the most knowledgeable about teams is he does his homework. He has a notebook that contains all the information on every team at an event he is MCing. He also goes around to teams and asks questions to get himself prepared.
Steve Warren is a long time announcing veteran from Canada who sets the announcing standard for initiating crowd participation. I had the pleasure of being the MC at Detroit when we was the announcer and we had a blast. We did dual announcing during the eliminations and he was very funny. I look forward to working with him in the future.
Dan Green is also a very seasoned announcer and has done some MCing, too. He comes from the Blair school of announcing: announce standing up and keep moving .. don't sit down. His play by play is the FIRST standard and he was the example I used when preparing for Great Lakes.
I'm sure all of these guys were outstanding at the Championship and I thank them for volunteering their time.
-Paul