thanks 71 and 179

[Swampdude]

A Huge Thank you to 233 for picking us. It was awesome to work with Andy and the rest of you guys. Josh you and your arm driver were amazing. You guys executed flawlessly for the entire competition. Your whole team is always cool as cucumbers. I just love doing battle with you guys! I wonder if you guys had gotten together with the poofs what would have happened. That was cool you guys got to climb our ramp that first semi match. SWAMP LOVES PINK!!!!

It was also great working with Brian Beatty (71) and Co. There was a lot of greatness happening through those eliminations with you guys, we're proud to have been a part of it. Those ramps were sweet.

BTW The tube did not block us, but it did mess with our drivers (Sean) head. He just tried to climb a little to soon thinking the clock was gone, but he had a few more seconds to align it. I didn't give him the countdown, I was a little distracted because I think pink was touching a tube or something and Beatty was yelling across at them to back off. They may have been saying to get off the ramp so they could jiggle the bot and we could get unstuck. Not sure, it was pretty frantic. I wonder if anyone on 71 in the drivers booth could elaborate why they kept yelling for 233 to "back off".

987 was an excellent scorer, the only team we couldn't seem to stop. They must have climbed 190 faster than we climbed 71 in the first match, because we had them on our end of the field with 10 seconds left on the clock. Great play and great drivers.

190 Congratulations, I love your designs every year. We were allied with you in Curie finals in 2004 and I was blown away then by your robot. You guys always go the extra mile in enginuity, and now you've got the big win, Great Job!

177 played some tough D on 233, we thought a flag was thrown in the last match for grabbing their ringer, but the penalty points didn't show up so I guess that wasn't the case. I'm glad a fellow UTC team took home the Gold. You guys scored fast the one match you played offense. I thought on the last match when we bumped both 177 and 987 that 177's gripper might have broke and then they decided to play defense. I'm not sure, but I know they started to score but after dropping the ringer, went straight to defense on pink.

Congrats to 1902 for winning Galileo! To bad we couldn't go head to head for the finals. It was close.

386 you guys did a great job, and it was fun playing you in the finals of Archimedes. Good job with the Autonomous & Controls award.

79 Congrats on the creativity award!