2009 Arizona Regional

[Donut]

Thanks everyone for a great AZ Regional like every year, this game turned out to be alot more exciting than I was expecting!

Congratulations to teams 1726, 39, and 1165 on the Regional Victory and to team 2486 on the Chairman's award (for a 2nd year team!). Thank you to teams 69 and 2837 for picking us for eliminations and I hope we can make it all the way next year (maybe 69 will come back then?).

Also a thank you to team 842 for putting on the unofficial team social this year which was alot of fun. Without all the exhibits of the science center to distract students I think a lot more of the students got out there and talked with other teams (not to mention played huge games of hackey-sack and danced the night away).

Lastly, thank you to the teams who kept working all through Friday and even Saturday to make sure their robots made it out to at least one match. There were significantly more missed matches than I have ever seen at an event before and I'm glad to see teams who were having difficulty had at least one opportunity to compete with their robots this year. Hopefully next year we can get out to teams having trouble sooner in the Regional and make sure everyone has running robots come qualifying rounds on Friday.

Here's to hoping next year's regional is even better!