[Tyler Olds]

I had the fortunate opportunity of taking the 6 hour drive to watch this regional, and what a regional it was! I was overly impressed with the performances of the teams. This definitely has to be one of the best regionals that I have seen yet! There were some teams that really stuck out in my mind that I would make sure that I pay attention to if you happen to encounter them at any other competition:

868: What a great strategy of having the human player stack four tetras and than depositing them for a 12 point play. I was also impressed on how study those tetra's stayed on your "tray". A lot of teams tried to bash the heck out of you and rarely did you drop the stack.

67: I really think that you guys had a lot of bad luck and penalties in the qualifying matches; you guys have a suburb machine, very consistent and very fluent.

1213: You guys were my favorite! The robot followed the KISS principle and had the ability to be one of the fastest cappers I have seen.

33: Very sturdy and consistent bot with a great autonomous mode, you guys have always been a powerhouse and you still are. Overall I believe that you were the best bot at the regional.

To the winning alliance:
107: It was an honor to work with you guys when I was a driver last year, and an human player the two previous years and I am sure it was no less for the operators this year. You guys not only have had great robots every year that I have known about FIRST, but you are the nicest, courteous and friendly team that I have ever met. Thanks for picking my old team, you guys are great.

66: You guys had a great robot. Very compact, agile and fast to cap, you made a great alliance partner!

93: I cannot describe how proud I am of you guys. You guys made one heck of a robot. Very robust (not mechanically breaking down once) and consistent in each match. Not to mention one heck of a drive team. You have broken the team roller coaster that we have been on forever. I look forward to seeing you guys succeed at nationals and I foresee great things for team 93 in the future.

Congratulations to all teams, you certainly made WMR on of the best regionals in FIRST.