florida regional

[miketwalker]

I have to admit, this year has been the most exciting Florida Regional in my view. Every year the teams are very open and very friendly... and this year just seemed to push that to a new level from everything I saw. I was so happy to see everybody working together so well both on the field, in the pits, as well as outside of competition. Great job to all of the teams!

I would like to extend an extra thanks out to Teams 945 and 386, it was a great experience to get to work with you guys in the finals since I have not had the oppurtunity to really work with you much before.

Also, another extra thanks to Team 1543... I was very, very impressed by what they accomplished in those 3 days. On the first day, they started off with a non-functioning robot and didn't really know what was going on... to Friday night where I sat down with them in the evening after they had played a few matches once we helped them get their robot functioning to hear them talking some really awesome strategy... and by Saturday they really seemed to display what FIRST is all about. They wrote as an amazing letter of thanks, and seemed to just have an awesome time there. It's always awesome to see a team with that ambition.