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Jonathan Norris Jonathan Norris is offline
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Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional

Wow... What an event!! I am so supremely proud of how the rookie students on my team performed this weekend. From the moment they walked into the pits on Thursday they were not phased for one second by the competition, they competed like we've been doing this for 10 years. They showed the judges all the hard work they've done throughout the season, and showed them that they get FIRST. I am very proud of for them to receive the Rookie All-Star Award, and get the chance to compete in Atlanta. Thanks again to our alliance partners 1219 and 2166, you two were a pleasure to work with.

To a team that has been doing this for 10 years, 610... you guys are back!! To see Crescent back in the finals was the second best moment of my day. You really built an awesome robot and Josh did you ever know how to drive it, its the best driven robot i've seen all year. Too bad you aren't going to ATL, probably one of the best robots not going to Atlanta this year.

About what went down in the finals, for those who say the booing wasn't warranted... 188, 610, and 1305 had just pulled a big upset in the first match and emotions were running high. Then the silliness happens (don't know what else to call it...) of not letting 188 on the field for the second match when 610 didn't have a front roller.. boo's are going to fly. There should have been better communication on all fronts and that situation should never have happened. Congrats to the alliance for putting up a great fight in the third match, you almost had it.

1114... such a well deserved Chairman's award, just look at the quality of teams you have helped start: 1503, 2056, 2166, and now us 2809. That doesn't mention the million other things you have done for the FIRST community, you deserve a strong consideration for Championship Chairman's this year, I know first hand how much you deserve it.

To the rest of the Canadian teams and everyone involved with the event, I was most impressed this weekend with the comradery between the teams. The mutual respect we have for one another has really grown over the last couple years into a really strong community. I look forward to seeing a lot of you again in Atlanta.

[Edit] I want to make it clear that I am not supporting the booing, but trying to explain why in a situation like this it is difficult to avoid. Yes in a perfect GP world the booing would never have happened, but we can take comfort that it didn't last for more then a couple seconds before people realized it was wrong. The situation was quickly explained to the crowd by Karthik that dampened the flames. Thank you to Sawn for explaining in detail why that situation happened. [/Edit]
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Last edited by Jonathan Norris : 29-03-2009 at 12:38.