Championship Announcers

[Grant Cox]

Dave Verbrugge is, without a doubt, one of my favorite people in FIRST. When I was announcing at the Cass district event, he took time from his team to help work field reset because they were short on volunteers. In between matches he was more than willing to provide encouragement and critiques to help me through the day; it was fantastic having him behind me for my first "official" event. I look forward to working with him in the future

Helpful mentor-ness aside, anyone who was witness to his "Perfect Storm" speech last year at GLR realizes the true genius and intensity to be found in Dave. It gives me chills even thinking about it... for those of you who weren't there, imagine something like the speech he gave in the Einstein finals (chronicling the drama and history of the 6 teams there), but extended across to an entire regional of 63 teams and presented at the opening ceremonies. He did it without background music, without a script, nothing except a microphone and a stadium full of robotics fans on the edges of their seats.