2008 Finger Lakes Regional

[Justin Montois]

FLR this year was simply amazing. First off, I would like to say to both of my teams 340 & 424, that I am extremely proud of all of you. You guys faced some tough obstacles and handled them extremely well. Also, all of our mentors and our amazingly dedicated team leader Jason Rees for their work all season so far and we are all so grateful.

MOE, you guys are exactly what a national CA team should be. You guys would jump at the chance to help anyone with anything and I was so honored to see your team in action next to us in the pits. I cannot tell you how much we appreciated having your endorsement for Chairman's, it's very humbling. You guys also brought a great robot again and I'm sure all teams that attend FLR want to have you guys back every year.

65,67,68, thanks for trekking all the way to Rochester. We loved having you guys there and it really gave FLR almost a championship feel. Having you guys there brought another National Chairman's award team as well as two national Woodie Flowers award winners. I hope you guys had a good enough time to consider coming back next year.

1126, You guys know we love you and we were really pulling for you in the finals. I hope we can get together with you guys soon and go bowling or something.

Thank you to 1503 and 316 for being awesome alliance partners.

Congrats to 1511 for your deserving EI award. 2 EI's and a CA award in three years is amazing.

Congrats to 20,191,2053 and 145. You guys were an amazing alliance and I hope you all can make it to championship.

A special congrats to Kate Nordland on her WFA. GRR loves you volunteer goddess!

A big thank you to the entire planning committee for their tireless efforts to ensure that FLR was a great event and it was executed wonderfully.

Last but not least, I'd like to thank all the volunteers for their dedicated and hard work. The judges and the Refs had very difficult jobs and did an amazing job. Everyone was so friendly and helpful it made the whole event awesome.

I can't wait for championship!