Iowa Regional 2016

[CalTran]

Just a quick update for the week -
Liberty Robotics, 1764
I don't quite know how I missed your team in my original write up, seeing as you made your presence incredibly known at this and all the other Greater Kansas City Regionals. Your team is an inspiration to all of the teams in the Greater Kansas City area, and congratulations on your very first Regional Chairman's Award. (Though I was very surprised to find out it was only your first. I figured your team had won it before.)

Blue Twilight, 2220
Blue Twilight describes your weekend and then some. Your team did what most only dream about - you went to Central Illinois and came out with the trifecta! Woodie Flowers Finalist (Congratulations to Mr. John Peterson), Regional Winners, and (an early tip) to your winning of the Chairman's Award. Wow. There's a new top awards dog in town, and I encourage everyone and their families to mob this team and interrogate them as to how they pulled off such a feat.
Note: Please don't actually mob them or cause them any harm. It's just a saying people.

Priyanka Koratpallikar, Team ASAP 4646
Yet another Dean's List Finalist attending this regional. Congratulations on such an accomplishment, and as myself am a Dean's List semi-finalist, I can say that I am very familiar with the amount of work that you must have put into the program, and you should be incredibly proud of this accomplishment. Good luck to you as well in St. Louis.

Out of the 53 attending teams, 24 of them have already played in a regional, and of those 24 teams that have already played, 8 of them are bringing Wild Card slots with them, so it's a high probability that the captain of the Finalist alliance may be hitching a ride to St. Louis regardless of outcome. Basically the other half of this regional has never stepped on an official Stronghold field, and most of the are using this regional to gear up for the next Minnesota regional at either North Star or 10,000 Lakes. However, five teams attending this event have never stepped on an official FRC field ever, so let's show the rookies why FRC is the best $@#$@#$@#$@# sport on the planet.

I'm looking forward to keeping up with the regional via webcast (because college. Boo) and hope that everyone else is hyped up for the event. It's gonna be a wild ride, and 2410 can't wait to help reign in the inaugural event. Be on the look out for our silver hats that people have come to know and love, and know that you can ask anyone wearing one for help and we will be happy to oblige.