Thanks from Team 1114

[Karthik]

The Pittsburgh regional was an amazing time, and I just want to thank every person and team who made it such great event. Special thanks go out to the following teams.

- Our alliance partners Teams 211 and 578. We were mere inches away from walking away with a big blue banner. It was pleasure competing alongside your robots and interacting with all of your team members.

- The winning alliance, Teams 5, 1030 & 398. You are very deserving champions, and our team feels no shame placing second to all of you. Also, knocking off both of the top two seeds from the qualifying rounds was no small feat.

- All of the Canadian teams, 188, 772, 783. It was great to see all the Canadian teams advance to the elimination rounds. The fan support you gave us in the finals was awesome.

- Team 48. I can't overstate how much your team helped us. For those who weren't there here's the story. During our second qualifying match the extension in our arm was badly damaged and bent. The damage was so bad we even contemplated removing the arm for the remainder of the regional. Immediately after the match Team 48 came to our pits and gave us the parts and tools to help us get the arm up and running again. The arm was running so well on Saturday that we we able to hang in five of our elimination matches. Team 48's altruistic actions were a true example of why FIRST is so amazing.

See you all next week in Long Island.

P.S. Have you heard my impersonation of a pigeon? How about a duck?