[Robyn Needel]

Wow, where to start? First of all, we want to formally welcome and congratulate our rookie "babies," Team 2866 Project Mayhem (their head mentor told a reporter that we got them into this "mess"...lol). They really did have a difficult build season, with a defective control station out of the box, a flood in their room, and other things going on, in addition to what we all go through - but we promised them things would get better and our FIRST friends came through to make it happen! Thanks to ALL the teams who came over to help 2866 (more than I can remember!) and devoted hours to them throughout the weekend, especially 75, 2199 and 2377.

To Team 1195 - thanks for choosing us and 1893 as alliance partners. We had a wonderful time playing with you, and winning the Championship was just the icing on the cake!

To Team 1893 - as always good friends, good partners and good competitors...congratulations on helping make our alliance a winner! BAA Rocks!

To Team 75 - once again, thanks for helping our rookies out, your team is just the greatest, and congrats on winning EI.

To our friends from 1511 - we were so sad that we couldn't make it to FLR, so having you come down to our home turf was so much fun...but then getting to cheer for your Website, Imagery and CA wins - what a great time we had! Thanks for the camo ball, we will display it proudly in our trophy case!

To David Kelley of Team 134 - congrats on winning WFA. We talked to some of your team, and they can't say enough wonderful things about you.

To Jason, Justin and the rest of 340 and 424 - thanks for the congrats and good wishes for our team and family, which actually included 4 generations (Jenny was wrong!). Greg's team 2775 did wonderfully in St. Louis, too - they ended up Finalists in tough competition, plus they won Rookie High Seed and Rookie All Star.

To Andy and Blair - thanks for being our emcee/announcer team, you made the event really fun. Blair, we had a visitor who said she thought she'd wandered into a hockey game by mistake ;-) To everyone who came to the Chesapeake Regional, we hope you had a great time! Good luck for the rest of the season!

Robyn