2006 Philadelphia Regional

[Chris Marra]

A long bus ride back from Philadelphia to Connecticut, and the regional is finally over for me. I just want to congratulate every team who competed at the regional for all of their hard work and dedication in building and competing with their robots. Philly was a great regional to attend, even if the venue was a little hot. The match play throughout the weekend was consistently high quality, and I had fun both driving and spectating against some very very good teams.

A huge thanks to teams 291 and 306 for their amazing match play in the elimination rounds, and thanks to 84, 205, and 104 for the close matches we played in the finals against them. Of course everyone at the regional did a great job. After having attended Boston and Philadelphia now, I'm really excited by the enthusiasm and support teams have given to teams and students from other countries.

I look forward to seeing the SOAP archives, and I know our partners, CIA, had a tapedeck set up at the video station, which is something that should be offered at every regional.