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Re: 2006 Chesapeake Regional
Favorite moments
Watching many teams, especially 237, rally around so many teams, assisting with major retooling. At about 4pm on Thursday, we still had 24 robots that had not passed inspection. By 8:30 on Friday all but a couple passed and they were all passed by mid-morning.
Watching the British and American students sing the national anthems, as a multi-team effort.
Watching the 15 rookie teams most of whom had never seen a FIRST event enter the arena floor on Thursday morning
The conga line and all those great mascots.
Watching the pit divas in action.
The teams who had major lapses in judgment, but made good with genuine apologies.
Least favorite moments
Dealing with all the confusion about FedEx shipping. There were mentors who had to spend hours on this frustrating task because of what appears to be some glitches in the system, but each of them, as tired as they were, were gracious.
Asking teams to please not pull their vehicles in the construction zone in the back of the arena and discovering a team did it anyway. I guess their sense of entitlement and judgment calls is more important than our host, the Naval Academy, and all of us working so hard to make this work for all parties involved.
Thanks to
Megan and Catherine on 888 and Robyn and Jocelyn on 768 for donating their calligraphy skills for a couple of hundred mentor recognition certificates for me.
Anne Bergeron and Steve Shade and the entire ref crew for making consistent and fair calls, some of which were not popular, but they were by-the-book.
Greg Needel who is an amazing announcer. He is professional, has a great voice, and has the knowledgeable banter down to a science. He also has a great sense of humor.
Jeff Seaton who lights up any room he is in.
The more than 20 Americorps volunteers who worked hard despite having to get up at 4 am each day to travel to the Naval Academy to get there by 7.
All our veteran and rookie volunteers. They were a great team.
Lt. Steve Lepper and Major Mark Tingle from the Naval Academy who have been a pleasure to work with.
To all the great mentors who were so free with their compliments.
And lastly, all the 64 teams, who chose to attend the jet-lag regional. You were an amazing group. Thanks to all.
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