A joke they called Regional Animation Competitions

[Matt Haberland]

Hey all animation people out there, I just wanted to say thank you for putting so much effort towards the outstanding final products as they really compliment the robot competition itself. It was most enjoyable to watch the animations in the theater at the VCU team party (although I agree it was difficult to watch them at the regional itself), and, hehe, great job to the team that showed the robot flying off the ramp to the moon - love the flapping wings! I also wanted to express my sympathy for you all having to deal with cruddy conditions and appologize for my team invading the autodesk space at the VCU regional if that contributed to the problem. A special commendation to Lev, Steve, and Larissa, the core animation team for 116. We're all proud of what you turned out and were betting the most on winning Visualization out of all the things we went for this year! I, too, hope FIRST will take these comments into consideration for next year. For the past three seasons I've wondered why they don't show the winning submissions for this and chairman's award at the regionals, but this year's situation kinda tops all that.