2007 FIRST Regionals Play by Play Announcer/Emcee Edition

[George A.]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Wayne Penn and George "The Voice" Ackley were amazing at Philly and I hope that they comes back next year and the next....

Also it would be great to have them swing by The Duel on The Delaware 2007, hint, hint, nudge, nudge Wayne and George.

I'll more than likely be there, I can't wait.

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Steve W

Detroit:

Steve Warren - MC
Dave Verbrugge - Announcer

Really?

Did you just decide to switch it up?

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Really?

Did you just decide to switch it up?

I think Steve's MC'd Detroit every year - certainly since 2005. I forget who was announcer in the past, but it wasn't always Dave.

[Dan Petrovic]

BAE Granite State
MC - Lucas Marrow (not sure if that's how you spell his name...)
Play by Play - Bill Larkin

Best pair I've seen?

Einstein 2006
MC - Dave Verbrugge
Play by Play - Bill Larkin

Simply amazing.

[Steve W]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Really?

Did you just decide to switch it up?

The first year at Detroit I was the announcer and Paul C was the MC. Since then I have been the MC and Dave has been the announcer. I was suppose to be the announcer but Dave asked to switch. I agreed but was really intimidated that year. It has now been 3 years that Dave and I have worked together and he has helped me out lots. I always offer him the MC job but I think that he likes announcing for a change.

[Libby K]

NJ/NYC/Philly
MC: Wayne Penn
Game Announcer: George "The Voice" Ackley

[EricH]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

While we are talking about these folks, did anyone hear what happened on San Diego on Saturday? The Emcee sails in in a boat! A BOAT! A real like 18 foot sailboat with blue banner sails! Right in front of the field! And the judges come in wearing all this beach gear, and throwing gigantic beach balls into the crowd, and like 50 people storm the field throwing rings everywhere, and it was just insane.

A boat towed by mascots...You had to be there to believe it/experience it. I hope somebody has pictures/video somewhere. Verbrugge's going to have a hard time topping that one at Championship.

[Don Knight]

Arizona Regional

Jeff Seaton = Emcee
Don Knight = Game Announcer

Kansas City Regional

Blair Hundertmark = Emcee
Don Knight = Game Announcer

San Diego Regional

Blair Hundertmark = Emcee
Don Knight and Tim Peterson = Game Announcers

Las Vegas Regional

Mark Leon = Emcee
Don Knight = Game Announcer (Saturday Only)


Eric you are right! The opening ceremonies on Saturday morning were something to behold. Thanks to the "Team San Diego" group it went off great and the crowd went wild!!!! The team Social at the Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park was also an evening not to be forgotten.

[George A.]

Originally Posted by Libby K

NJ/NYC/Philly
MC: Wayne Penn
Game Announcer: George "The Voice" Ackley

I'm not going to lie...without Wayne these competitions won't be much. About 60% of the credit for the exciting regionals belong to that man (the other 40% belonging to the robots) I don't think I've ever seen a MC pump up a crowd as much as Wayne does.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Wisconsin Regional

Emcee: Tyler Olds
Game Announcer: Ryan Dognaux

[Rohith Surampudi]

Florida Regional

Emcee - Greg Hale / Arefin Bari
Announcer - Arefin Bari / Dan Richardson

^these guys were great, even though all i saw was the webcast...

[Gene F]

VCU Regional

Jeff Seaton = Emcee
Dan Greene and Gene Falendysz = Game Announcers

Peachtree Regional

Troy Thrash = Emcee (Alliance selection and support Gene Falendysz)
Charles Peterson (Sir. Charles) and Gene Falendysz = Game Announcers

Palmetto Regional

Gene Falendysz = Emcee (Support from Greg Welsch and Terrel Burch)
Barry Hudson = Game Announcer

[dhitchco]

This is a GOOD thread.......FIRST should be able to ADD the names of the MC and game announcer to their official web site list of all regional events.

For Finger Lakes Regional, now in its 3rd year, this year's MC and game announcer were fantastic. After some last-minute changes and shuffles, Ellery Wong from Xerox came forward as the Master of ceremonies and did a great job over three days! The game announcer , JonnDar Bradshaw, was also fantastic, especially given that FLR had a video simulcast over our local cable TV provider (Time-Warner) and JohnDar did a great "color commentary" for the at-home viewers.

Kudos to both of them....FIRST should really add the names of all the MCs, game announcers, heads of regional committees, etc to the main web site.....