Duel on the Delaware - Thanks

[Mr MOE]

On behalf of Teams 365 and 316 and our Duel Planning Committee, I would like to thank all volunteers and teams for competing at the Duel on the Delaware yesterday. We hope you all had a good competition experience.

Competition Results (thanks for some awesome matches!)
Congratulations to our Duel Champions: 1640, 341, 5420
Congrats also to our Duel Finalists: 303, 4575, 5310, 316

Link to Duel Webcast Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-4ijcR9oM

Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer Award
Our nominees were:
365 Brian West
1089 Matthew Palmere
1626 Richard O’Connor
2607 Matt Atras
4575 Joe McCullough
5401 Kevin McKay

Congratulations to our 2016 Duel Master Volunteer – Kevin McKay!!!

Student/Team Judged Awards
Outreach Team 2607
Spirit Team 1111
Gracious Professionalism Team 341
Creativity Team 2180

Chairman’s Award Practice Interviews
Team 321
Team 1626
Team 3941

Success Won’t Wait Book Drive
Thanks to all of your donations, over 11,500 lbs of books were donated (that’s over 5.65 tons!)
The Duel partnership with Success Won’t Wait goes back to 2004. Since then, books donated at the Duel totaled over 82.500 lbs!
Congratulations to our winner of the Miracle of Reading Education Community Service Award - Team 271, who donated 3,377 lbs of books. Our runner-up, Team 1626 donated 2,974 lbs of books!

Special Thanks
Joe Troy Duel FIRST Technical Advisor (FTA)
Brian Sherman Duel Equipment Manager
Bob Dudek Duel Planning Team Lead
Jeff Chambers Volunteer Coordinator
Katie Bunca Duel Emcee
Chris Gregory Duel Play-by-Play
Sunny Hung Head Referee
Joe Perrotto Duel FTC Lead
Carol Perrotto Duel Master Volunteer Judge Lead
Salem Community College Event hosts
First State Robotics/South Jersey Robotics Organization hosts
Teams 365/316 Team hosts
Priscilla Zawislak/Ali Chairman’s Award Practice Interview judges
Walter Klaus DJ and AV equipment supplier
Nathan Massouda Duel webcast

Thanks to all the volunteers and teams who made this event special. See you all next time!

Duel on the Delaware Planning Committee