[katiyeh07]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

I have been playing with the idea of a "publication" where folks who are casual FIRST fans can get a feel for the FIRST season the same way a casual sports fan can catch up with the NFL or NBA or whatever by scanning USA Today or SI.

To that end, I have started posting my Predictions messages (eventually we will have a place for these things but for now, we are just going to post them on the usual fora).

I would like to have a The Week That Was type column that summarizes the regionals after the fact. What we want are INTERESTING articles that can give people a flavor of what happened at the regional. Below I will give some of examples of the type of thing I am looking for (though these are still rough, they give the idea). They cover CT, MI-Detroit, & IL Regionals. I was AT the Detroit regional and I still found it interesting to have another point of view.

Point of view is the key. Each of these columns gives facts but also give analysis and insight.

So... If you are interested, please pull together a story of the regional. It does not have to be the COMPLETE story of the regional but make the STORY complete -- make it as stand alone as you can so that it doesn't require a lot of knowledge of obscure facts to make it readable. Most of all make it INTERESTING.

PM them to me. I will get them to a team of folks that will help me pick the best and then we will publish them in some way. Be sure to let us know if you want the posts to be anonomous (WE will know who wrote it but we are willing to keep that information private if it gets a better story -- for example, if you are identified with team X you may be shy about criticizing their picks or the picks of others for fear of having your opinion adversely affect your team).

Thanks,

Joe J.

24 (and counting) of the 31 got sick on our team. It was a rough weekend.