The Palmetto Regional's New Location

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by mandrews281

I doubt anyone from 4748 reads Chief Delphi regularly, and I still don't know his name. But the joy in this kid just brought tears to my eyes as I read this to my wife, and it has made my season.

I saw this as I was posting up to film one of 2815's matches, and I wish I was filming! I've seen that raw enthusiasm on just a few occasions, most of them involving the finals. (I recall a kid from the long-defunct 803 back in 2006, who happened to walk by inspection right as 1293 nipped its weight problems. He was just as psyched as I was.)

2815's performance at Palmetto was not to our expectations. We came in wanting to kick butt and get our third straight Palmetto title, but our problems were just too much to merit being picked. Our laundry list for South Florida is already underway--we've got a lot to do to punch our ticket to St. Louis.

I'd like to give thanks to all the teams that gave us help and pointers as we worked through our problems.

Shoutout to MORT for beating us to a third win at Palmetto. We'll race you to four.

Additional shootout to ROBOTZ Garage for their Rookie All-Star win and their comeback from that terrifying fall in SF2-1. A lot of teams would've thrown it in after that, but these guys took a timeout and parked that robot right back up on Level 3. Orlando had better watch out.

Time to lick our wounds and make our plans for South Florida. See some of you there, see some more of you at SCRIW!