Lone Star Regionals THANK YOU

[AllenGregoryIV]

Spectrum would like to thank everyone at the Lone Star Regional for making it a special event.

I have been at Lone for 12 of it's 15 year history and I love coming back year after year.

Thank you to our alliance partners 4587 & 2881. It was awesome playing with you and we worked very well together, enough to hand the eventual champions their only loss in eliminations. 4587 is quickly on their way to being a Texas Powerhouse, it's amazing what they have put together in just 2 years. 2881 has been constantly getting stronger each year and this year they really went to work on their robot and it showed. We still can't believe they were around for us to pick them on the back half of the snake. Thank you both again it was great working with you and will see you in the off-season.

Congratulations to the champions 148, 118, 2585. You all played extremely well and those semi-finals matches were awesome.

Congratulations to our friends on the finalist alliance 1477, 624, & 3997. You all have great machines and we look forward to seeing you at championship.

118, 148, 624, 1477 have all provided so much help and inspiration to our team and we love competing them every year.

Congratulations 3103 Iron Plaid for their Engineering Inspiration Win. Fantastic job and were so happy you get to come to St. Lous too.

Thank you to Mark Koors for coming down to Houston to be our FTA. We ended up having a whole handful of trained FTA's at the event and they kept everything moving right on time.

Also a thank you to the inspectors for being awesome. Lyndon Bridgewater and company manged to get all 55 teams through inspection on the 1st day.

Thank you to 5307 and 5308, you all had to come long way to compete, and you did a fantastic job. We hope to have you back next year.

Thank you to team 1622 you all were a joy to work with and you're welcome back in Texas anytime.

Another Congratulations goes out to team 5287 Flare from Orange, TX. We have been mentoring them all year and they have put in a ton of work. I was so excited when they were honored with the Rookie Inspiration Award.

This wouldn't be complete without congratulating Les Ruthven of the Discobots 2587 on winning the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award. I started mentoring the same year Les did. He was a father of a student on the Discobots in 2009 when I was helping them as a college student. He's had both his daughters go through the team but he has stayed on as one of the most critical pillars of the team. He's a mentor that makes everyone else;s life on the team easier. He will always tackle the hard or ugly problem and work with the students to find unique solutions. It was an honor to be able to hand him his trophy. Thank you for everything you have done Les.