[team1102a]

I wanted to summarize my feelings as Game Announcer for Palmetto 2010.
AWESOME!!!!

Every year gets better. The bots, the GP, and especially the strategy improves every year.

We announcers are always looking for items to add drama to the event. We had it all. Dead robots coming back as contenders in the semi-finals. A robot succeding in a hang in their 11th match after making incremental improvements each round (including a partial hang from the wrong tower). 2 Cinderella Rookie teams, including one as an alliance Captain. I heard about so many acts of GP in the pits, I was just floored. In my brief visits, I often saw robots in other's pits being worked on or 5 different teams shirts in a pit helping a team on the skids.

In the end everyone has a success story to take home.

I kept a stats sheet, but misplaced it. I recall the highest seeding score in a match was 23. High individual score was 9 in the Elims (and a lot of 8s in the Quals), and high combined was 13 in the Quals in 16 in the Elims.

There were 23 elevations in the Quals (including 3 matches with Red/Blue hangs and nearly a triple on the Red Tower one time), and about 9 in the Elims.

Then 3 ties in a row in the Semis, and on and on as the drama unfolded.

I loved working with JDew as our new MC, and everyone was great in keeping up the energy during the 2 length field delays on Saturday.

Only 363 days to go till 2011.