2009 Las Vegas Regional

[JB987]

Originally Posted by EricH

Does anyone know which team submitted the WFFA essay for the winner? Fantasy FIRST could use the information...

Pretty sure it was team 585...

[Cascade]

WOW! What a regional! This is taking awhile to decompress from. There were many honors to go around, however.

What an honor to be aligned with the 2007 World Champions, 987. Your combination of great offense and crucial defense at critical times showed your great experience. You changed gears from offense to defense effortlessly. Your human player was fast and accurate gaining critical points for our alliance.

What an honor to be aligned with a multi-regional champion team like 1013. Your ability to pin both defensively and offensively slowed the opposing alliance and made our scoring runs more effective. Your human player was amazing. She filled 1622 left-handed, right-handed, both handed, on the fly, and was incredibly disciplined in her target selections. She was amazing.

What an honor to face a great alliance, especially the 2005 World Champions, Team 330 in the finals. This is the team we began modeling ourselves after in 2005. They are great teachers and generous to any who ask for help. Of equal honor was standing next one of their mentors during the finals as we talked about the great matches we were seeing. This is someone I have watched since 2006 as a person representative of the FIRST ideal. Some year we hope to have the honor of being Regional Champions with them.

1622, enjoy the hardest, funniest work to date; then, next week back to work cause you’re going to ATLANTA!

[Team2339]

Wow. Team 2339 is ready to rock next year!
254 and 1538, thank you for selecting us in the final alliance, we almost pulled it off.
See you next year and good luck in Atlanta

[Joe Ross]

Here's video of Elvis at the Opening Ceremonies.

I uploaded the semifinals and finals matches to TBA. The rest of the video (unparsed) is being uploaded to firstvideoarchive. See the Archiving Regionals Video 2009 thread for more details if you want to parse it.