2007 Great Lakes Regional, Best Ever?

[Don Wright]

Just a couple of things about GLR from me:

Thanks to all the teams that helped us and gave us encouragement over the weekend. We set the bar very high for ourselves this season and have had some setbacks... But, we aren't giving up and I know of 24 students that are all working hard coming up with creative and innovative ways to improve on things that didn't work well this weekend.

Thanks to the Monsters for picking us... I was proud as a WLW grad to see you guys play so well over the weekend...

I also want to thank the EMU and event planners for doing some small things that really made the event great. Things like the relaxed rules on exiting and entering the building by letting us go in and out the side doors of the stadium. Not making everyone always going to the front or down to the back to enter the building might seem like a small thing, but it really made things better.

I thought the pre-staging of the teams was a little over zealous at times. We were ALWAYS running behind and when we almost missed out last practice match because the practice rounds were running almost an hour ahead of schedule, I was frustrated. I understand that you want to keep things moving, but give us chance... Finishing an hour early doesn't really do anyone much good... And during quals, hearing last call and rushing out of the pits only to get into a line 3 or 4 teams deep didn't seem to make much sense either...

Please don't take these as complaints...just observations... Overall, I felt it was a great event and success...

And to Jack Jones... The great schedule Carnack... You always seem to put things in perfect perspective...

To our friends at 1114...thanks for the fun you guys provided our kids on Thursday night at Laser Tag... They had a blast... It was fun to finally play with you on the field too!!! I know that little piece on our ramp would cause us a problem some time... Hope to be in the same division in Atlanta...