pic: Best Emcee Ever?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

The melding of Karthik's MCing and Jondarr's booming voice is an epic combination of epic epicness that is, to be frank, epically epic.

Yeah. That combo is hard to beat.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by nikeairmancurry

I have a possible up and comer for you, Grant Cox, former 217 driver. He has all the makes of a great MC just waiting to come out. Tons of energy, jumps around or over people. Displays a good history of FIRST, and purely enjoys watching every match. He also likes to break out the trivia and jokes during timeouts and between matches. He doesn't get to showcase his talents much with going to Michigan Tech, but he sure gives it a go when he can. Grant, for sure could become the next great MC.

Grant will continue to be an up and comer so long as he doesn't manage to kill himself diving off of the field at MARC.
That dude is nuts!

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by George A.

Dave is the best story teller MC hands down. Though I must admit I'm quite partial to working with Chiniqua.

I gotta go with George on this one. Chiniqua's energy level is unprecedented, not to mention the fact that she's awesome.

[Foster]

+1 for Paul Copioli. The man is a walking FRC match history machine. At IRI for the eliminations he gives you chapter and verse of who's played who in prior years and the match outcomes. And with all of the top teams that makes the trip to IRI there is a lot of interesting history. A match is no longer two dozen kids and a few robots, it's a full fledged "Hatfields, Snoopy and the Jets vs. McCoys, Red Barron and the Sharks" with Robots!

OTOH, MAR has got some new MC's doing their matches, I'm sure we will be hearing about them in the near future.

[nikeairmancurry]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Grant will continue to be an up and comer so long as he doesn't manage to kill himself diving off of the field at MARC.
That dude is nuts!

While I'm the fool who encouraged it and filmed it.. lol

[Horsegirrl]

My vote will always be for Chiniqua! She is a true inspiration, and i will never stop looking up to her!

[xSAWxBLADEx]

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[kstl99]

Wow. Nobody has mentioned Dave Price as an MC? I haven't really seen many of the people previously mentioned so I cannot compare them. I really appreciate Dave's humor without silly gimmicks. He seems to have a comment for each team and pays attention to what they have accomplished so far at the regional and in the past.

[Nikki Haux]

Originally Posted by Cory

Blair rarely announces, but he was great at it the few times I've heard him. Blair is pretty much the best in my book.



You're thinking of Dave Verbrugge.

Yes. No other words are necessary

[torihoelscher]

I think Barry Bohnsack is the best Emcee for FRC and FTC. He makes it very very amusing! Always positive

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I'm a little disappointed that this is all the same names that would have been raised 5 years ago (minus Paul "Copioil"). If you subtract the Karthik and Barry references, 10 years ago as well.

I wouldn't be disappointed by this, statistically it should be expected. FIRST sends their best and most experienced Emcee's and Game Announcers to rookie regionals, so there is a much higher percentage of audiences that get to see Blair and Mark in Action, which is a good thing!

Blair is awesome. My first year emceeing was in 2007, and I did Florida as well as Kansas City for its rookie regional year. I was trained by blair, and that regional happened to land on St. Patrick's Day, and he emceed the entire day dressed as a leprechaun.

Originally Posted by wendymom

Dan can spout the history of just about any Florida team and knows all the connections between teams. It is so much fun listening to him tell the stories of all the teams during eliminations.

Of all emcee's I've worked with, no one is more enjoyable than Dan. His history lessons of the teams in the Florida finals are fantastic, and his high energy introductions are crowd pleasers, but nothing beats his sense of humor.
+1 for "Rand Dichardson"


I have a nomination for who we all really want as an Emcee... Morgan Freeman. He already attends the Championship event. Let him emcee just one match, it will be legendary, make it happen.

[Koko Ed]

II know it was his FIRST regional but Dan who worked at Montreal was REALLY impressive. I truly hope to see him come to championships. He was alot of fun!

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

I have a nomination for who we all really want as an Emcee... Morgan Freeman. He already attends the Championship event. Let him emcee just one match, it will be legendary, make it happen.

YES. We need to have Morgan Freeman MC! At EINSTEIN!

It would more than make up for last year's Einstein game (not a single note was played that match. )

[scottandme]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

II know it was his FIRST regional but Dan who worked at Montreal was REALLY impressive. I truly hope to see him come to championships. He was alot of fun!

Seconded - he did an amazing job, best I've seen in 4+ years in FIRST. The man was moving nonstop during every match break, field reset, and communications delay. His seamlessly transition between French and English was something to behold and was an immeasurable help to the non-francophones in the audience.

[DCA Fan]

My fav emcees: Mark (I may be biased since I tend to work regionals with him), Blair, Dave V
Fav play by play (AKA the people I most try to emulate): Blair, Dave Seibel (LA), Andy, Paul