St. Louis Reigonal 2012

[Richard Wallace]

At last, Cathy Sylve has received long overdue and well-deserved recognition for leadership as the founder and inspiration of the RoboHawks, FRC 1985. It is very fitting that her individual recognition comes at the RoboHawks' home event, with the team as the #1 draft on the winning alliance, and earning the Regional Chairman's Award. A trifecta. Well done, Cathy. You are my hero.

And well done, RoboHawks. Cathy set the bar high for you, and your team has met the challenge. I am very proud of you, as are many others both in St. Louis and far away.

And as in every year since 2002, I am also very proud of Perpetual Chaos, FRC 931, my all-time favorite team. Congratulations on executing an unconventional game strategy and robot design, and on the Xerox Creativity Award.

I really hope that next year's FRC calendar will not put the St. Louis Regional on the same weekend as my new team's home event.

[class1234567]

That was a very fun reigonal. My First of many I would like to thank all of the judges and everybody that helped run the even and to team 1986, and 4356 for winning with us.

[catsylve]

Originally Posted by Richard

At last, Cathy Sylve has received long overdue and well-deserved recognition for leadership as the founder and inspiration of the RoboHawks, FRC 1985. It is very fitting that her individual recognition comes at the RoboHawks' home event, with the team as the #1 draft on the winning alliance, and earning the Regional Chairman's Award. A trifecta. Well done, Cathy. You are my hero.

Richard,
I was presented with the opportunity to learn from some of the very best from day 1! Thank you so much for the help you have given to me over the years, it has been deeply appreciated. I would also like to thank Perpetual Chaos for being an example for all of the teams in St. Louis to emulate. AND I would also like to thank Metool Brigade, 1208, for pushing us all year. We knew it would be a race and we have enjoyed working with you all year. You are truly an excellent team! We're all going to do our best to really bring along all of the rookie teams from St. Louis.

[Alpha Beta]

Thank you St. Louis for putting on a fantastic regional. A special thanks to the FTA and his assistants who helped us with our intermittent communication issues. It would have been a very different weekend without your suport.

When I saw 14 rookies on the roster for the tournament I wasn't sure what to expect. By the time the qualification matches were over we had 6 of those rookies in our 24 team pick list, and were thrilled to get 4356 with our last pick in the draft. You were exactly what we needed in a robot that could travel to the other side and play defense as well as balance. I'm sure we could have triple balanced with you if the situation had called for it. Good luck at champs.

Congrats to 4256 on winning Rookie All-Star. Not only is your team well on it's way to developing a Chairman's worthy portfolio, but you're robot was of excellent quality as well. Those going to champs should note that this is no ordinary rookie. The bot can score with the best of them.

Thank you 1985 for joining us on our Regional Championship run. Your bot peformed even better than at KC, and your extremely high shooting percentage got our scouts' attention. With a Chairman's award and WFFA award to boot you guys are the total package, set up for continued success for many years to come.

1208, you are a worthy opponent. When we saw you pair up with 1288 we knew we would need our "A" game to pull off a victory. 2783 was a great pick as well, with their defense and full court shots. The 52 points you collectively put up in the semi-finals definetly got our attention.

1987, we couldn't be more thrilled to see you return to Champs. Your Engineering Inspiration award is well deserved, and your whole team is a pleasure to work with. Our website people are currently looking at your site for ideas on how to better communicate in that medium. Best website at two regionals in the same year is quite a feat. Congratulations.