[Chris Marra]

176, 201, and 306 in 2006 particularly impressed me with their on the fly strategy decisions in the events we played with them, and their drivers were always on top of things. From 176's picking strategy on Newton, to 201's novel of autonomous modes and play-by-play strategies that they handed to us on Galileo, and 306's genius blocking of MOE at Philadelphia in the semi-finals, these teams were always thinking ahead.

Of course, few can forget 25's base driver in 2006 (Corey Balint), and the undefeated 2 regional winning streak. I hate to patronize my own team as well, but our 2006 base driver (Greg Marra), managed to win 2 regionals using defense, sometimes winning in matches where no balls were scored outside of autonomous, and then arriving on Einstein undefeated at Nationals. Tom Bottligeri of 195 serving as Coach also comes to mind, because the astonishing "A-Bomb" where 195 passed balls to 968 on Einstein was developed by these three.

Both 176 and 148's drive teams deserve very special distinctionfor this year, because they both drove our robot when travel arrangements fell apart. 176 stepped in for us in 2 matches at UTC when our Board of Education told us we couldn't participate anymore, and 148 drove on Thursday of Nationals when only our base driver was present and everyone else was stuck in airports.