[eugenebrooks]

It was a pleasure to be in the winning alliance with 190 and 1516.

This Silicon Valley Regional was very special this year. I mentored the Athenian team, 852 during its first two years, and then split off to mentor team 1280 during its rookie year and stayed with 1280. Team 852 has helped team 1280 out by loaning us sensors many times over the years and we owe a debt of gratitude for that. Team 1516, Cal High, has visited our shop to collect parts that we were not using from our KOP during the past build period. It was a pleasure to have them pick us in their alliance. It was also a great to see three teams from the tri-valley area in the finals, the finals was some sort of tri-valley mafia, the Athenian, Cal High and San Ramon Valley High are only a few miles from each other.

The last match was quite a cliff-hanger, but the best action in my mind was when 766 picked the ringer that had become stuck on 852's flag, so that it could resume scoring on the rack.

It's off to the Sacramento Regional in two weeks and I am sure that it will be a lot of fun to play with so many great teams from SVR again.

Regards,
Eugene