[smurfgirl]

First of all, congratulations to all of the amazing teams and robots I saw at the Connecticut Regional. There were so many unique ideas, and things that worked so well for all of you. (You have no idea how hard it is to only pick two teams to be on your alliance! Couldn't it have been one alliance of 62 robots?)

Team 236, congratulations for winning the Chairman's Award. The work your team does is amazing, and you truly deserved it.

Teams 230, 61, and 1991, thanks for being great opponents. You were fun to play against and you put up a great fight. Congratulations on your great robots and all your hard work to get as far as you did.

Teams 175, and 716, thank you so much for working with us! You guys were amazing partners, and our team never would have been able to do so well without your help. You let us keep our undefeated record, and have the "threepeat" ... both of which I can't believe really happened.

To all the people who congratulated our alliance, thank you for your kind words.

And to the guy from team 716, I'm really glad we got to work with you, too. Some of the people on our team who weren't connected with the alliance partners decision looked at your ranking and were shocked. (This is why we don't go by ranking numbers, we go by robot performance and capabilities.) You guys deserved another chance, and we wanted to give it to you, just like team 177 took a chance on us back in 2006.