Well...Our team was planning on coming, but last minute issues canceled our participation with a robot...
But nontheless! We had 2 members come in and volunteer with building the arena, other sorts of maintance for the event, taking pictures and soo on.
and we 2 members had a blast! Even from watching it from the side (which was really sad that we haven't participated
).
But we promise to do our best to bring all of our team (or most of them atleast) to next year's Israel Off Season!
No official word about a 2008 Israel Off Season, but saty tuned. 
Congratulations to all of the participating teams together! The event winners were 1950 and 1574, but I think we can all agree that all of the participating teams are winners of this event, for making this thing become.
B.T.W, we were thinking of giving a name to the event, something like Technion Tension or Technion Teroof(translated from hebrew, Technion Madness), but I think IOS will be good enough.
and I kept this last because this is most important!
Thank you to all the first entrepreneurs of this event, the great volunteers from many teams (and from ex-teams), to the teams that were willing to come to the event and make it happen and thank you to FIRST Israel, especially to Alisha MacIntyre (the Director of FIRST Israel), her husband and Adam Hillel.
Additional thanks to Costa, Nadav and Felix, the referees.
Thank you Leav, for taking a great responsibillty with the flow of the event, tech-wise and spirit-wise (and the awesome MoCing). You the man!
And last, but not least, and the most important in my opinion,
Thank you
soooooooo much, Liron, for making this thing possible! it wasn't bad,
it was just freagin' completly awesome!!!!
It really felt like a regional competition and I very firmly belive that this should give the motivation to some of the teams to start getting prepaired now to the 2008 FRC season in Israel.
The atmosphere and spirit brought into the event was just amazing and I hope we can keep those up into the coming regional, championship and next Off Season!
Without your enthusiasm Liron, we'd never start this thing.
Thank you for taking the huge amount of responsibillty for making sure that everything is prepaired, everthing is settled, everything is taken care of and making this a great event!
(BTW, great driving of you robot
)
Thank you Tottanka!!!
It all started from 5-6 guys meeting at a mall to discuss FIRST stuff, and it rolled into the idea of an off season event, and it finally stopped at a succesful event with VIPs, more than 70 students (atleast!) and a very big great FIRST spirit.
I have a really big feeling that this is gonna' be a great season for FIRST/FIRST Israel.