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Team 1293 and I especially (1293 driver) would like to thank Team 801 and 1369 for choosing us for your alliance during eliminations. Tough luck seems to follow us, so sorry for rubbing off on you 801 during our second quarterfinal match ;-). It was great fun and 801, you guys rock.

As Billfred noted earlier, this year is the first time 1293 has reached elimations, which seems to be a great achievement but an unfortunate realization at the same time. 1293 has always had the potential to do great things, it just seems that this year is the first time we've gone out and achieved what we should of done all along. Build a great bot, do well at competition, avoid bad luck and make it to elims. Next season we hope will build on our successes this season and maybe we'll get past the quarterfinals, who knows :-D. As this years bot co-designer and driver, I feel as though we peaked on saturday but had an unfortunately short lived run in the elimination rounds. Such is luck, but big props to the robolions and their alliance for the win against us.

I'd like to give a shoutout to 342 for beating us by 1 point in the most heartbreaking match of the weekend for us, 343 for the sexy bot and the compliments towards us, 425 and 1319 for achieving the highest qualifying match score at Palmetto with us of 111, and the ever so lovely 1319 for that JB weld that practically cemented a troublesome bearing in place (at least until the final quarterfinal match when it got smacked super hard for the 10th time). Also a shoutout to 1618 for the battery chargers/battery for elims and Billfred, because his sideburns are just so wickedly awesome. (Also, sexy bot and t-shirts)

Also, i'd like to give a shoutout to 1771 especially. Each match they proved to be the best bot at the regional, and its refreshing to see an obviously dominating bot actually win a regional. I really do love to see the best bot or best alliance win at a regional, but it seems to be more often than not that some mishap happens and they end up falling short of the victory after a spectacular weekend. (See: 342/343 alliance last year, and 1251's alliance).

We'll see you guys next year for hopefully bigger and better things. As always palmetto was great fun and Billfred, stay sexy my man ;-)