[Chris86]

Oh wow, definitely the most fun Florida regional I have ever attended.

(Even though I'm putting this first, this is the last thing I felt I just had to add): Thanks to EVERYBODY that came by to compliment our robot or cheered us on when we rolled over a bump and the judges for awarding us the Engineering Excellence Award (sponsored by Delphi xD) for our robot's roll carriage. It just made our entire team SO HAPPY (you know that warm fuzzy feeling inside?) that people liked our robot and its design so much. Honestly, you guys can't even imagine how awesome you made us feel and we are SO glad that people enjoyed watching our robot run.

NOW: Thanks to all the volunteers, judges, mentors, parents, ANY adult involved with FIRST. You guys make it all possible and nobody can thank you enough.

Congrats to Team 1902 Exploding Bacon on their Chairman's award!

Thanks to teams 1612 and 1251 for being AMAZING alliance partners, you were awesome guys.
1612: Oh my goodness! I found a button from last year from you guys with my picture on it. Too cool!
1251: I absolutely loved working with you guys again. In my freshmen year (Overdrive), our robot's claw broke and you guys and 233 gave us the privilege of working with you two to winning the Florida regional then. I knew that you guys could play stellar defense and had a good amount of ball control (the fact you guys could hang was unknown but a pleasant bonus xD) so it was an honor to be able to choose you guys and work and win with you again.

Thanks for rolling with us guys!

Some other shout-outs:

Team 79: You guys had some trouble with comm issues and your lift breaking (which was really unfortunate!), but WOW when you guys were working you were WORKING. Amazing ball control and in one of the elimination matches I saw you guys start your lifting mechanism at (I think) 7 seconds left and make it up to the top before the match ended. WOW

Team 103: When we played together in a qualifying match, you guys were AWESOME. One of the most fun matches I was at all day! You guys were skying balls across the field (and sometimes over the driver station!), so epic! Even after that, you all appeared to have gotten the power needed to kick the balls down to what it needed to be and were scoring from everywhere on the field, great job.

Team 118: AMAZING DEFENSE. Wow if you guys weren't the most annoying bot (in a good way!) to play. Had to get both us and 1612 to even have a chance of scoring on you guys!

Team 179: First off, congrats on the #1 seed as well as the co-opertition award! You guys excelled in all aspects of the game, from scoring any place on the field to hanging at the end. Way to go guys!

Team 945: Just love your team in general, you guys were SO NICE! One of the best midfield bots I saw AND an impressive hanging device!

Team 1065: I did not talk with your team a whole lot during the competition, but you were definitely one of the top short range bots.

Team 1592: I LOVED YOUR AUTONOMOUS. Seeing you pound in 3 points from the far side of the field was SWEETTTT.

Team 2383: NINJINEERS, YOU GUYS WERE SO COOL! Epic team name AND I got to hug a ninja, YES!

There are a TON of teams I didn't talk about that were no less amazing than any team I listed. Just thanks to every team that was there for making this Florida Regional the best EVER (in my opinion xD)

Sorry for huge amount of text and look out for us green people in Atlanta (FREE HUGS AT THE PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT!)