IRI Thanks/Congrats

[Ricky Q.]

Here's my list, I'm sure I'll forget somebody:

The Organizers: One word, Awesome! Thanks for an awesome weekend!

Andy B. and the Refs: Excellent job, you handled the job better than I ever could have, tough calls were made, and I think they were all the right ones, somebody had to do it, and I'm glad it was you guys, great explanations and Thanks!

Emily/Brett and the FEDS: Congrats guys, great bot, great job, too bad we weren't together :-p Thanks for the lending of stuff and see ya next time!

Brian and Team 71: Great job this weekend, man was that a match, Awesome bot this year, we'll see you and Brittney later!

DJ and the TKats #45: See we had to work together eventually
, Thanks for picking us and hopefully we can do it again sometime, with better results, Go Brewers!

Appleton: You people rock! Thanks for everything and awesome job this weekend, I know I'll see all you later.




Thanks again to everyone that I have forgotten, it was awesome!

Hey no prob Ricky....you guys should be the ones thanked for helping us out when we ran into some problems

also thanks to Paul and the Thunderchickens for your assistance in the elims....its always fun working with you guys.



93...what can I say...you guys get better as you go along Great Job..

Congradulations to the 201, 469, and 998 allience for winning it all

Thanks to 330 from comming all the way from Cali to compete...even though you guys had a few probs and weren't up to what Ive seen you guys do it was still great working with you guys in the qualification rounds.

*Note: I could go on with thank yous all day
Finally Id like to thank the Referee's especially Andy Baker for leading the crew of referees....and finally special thanks to Sean R for comming all the way from LA to referee...

[Jeff Waegelin]

I, too would like to give out some thank-yous.

First, to 45, 234, and 393, thanks for a great event. You did a great job, and I think everyone had a ton of fun.

Second, to our alliance partners, 469 and 998, you guys were awesome! We couldn't have done it without you.

Finally, to our finals opponents, 111, 71, and 93, for their good sportsmanship and some exciting matches.

I'm sure there are lots more people to thank, so to anyone else who helped make the weekend great: thank you!

[Libby Ritchie]

Thanks to all the teams that came to the IRI and made it a great competition! As a sponsoring team of the IRI, I was SHOCKED how many hours and how much went into planning an off-season event. Though we are all tired, we were thankful to all that came, gave Indy a better idea as to what FIRST is all about, and made for a great time this weekend.

[Caleb Osborne]

I think the IRI was a big success. I hope it will be just as fun and exciting next year. Hopefully we will have more teams come to the competition. Thanks to all the sponsors and teams that helped the IRI. We probably couldn't of done it without everyones help. For the teams that didn't come, hopefully you will be there next year

[ChrisH]

The Beach Bots would like to thank 45 234 and 393 for putting on a really great competition. We felt very welcomed and people were very understanding about our technical problems. Personally, I think BeachBot was just grumpy from being stuck in the back of a truck for 2000 miles. We'll see when he gets home in a week or so.

We would also like to thank all the teams for trying to help us out of our problems, especially 111.

Hopefully in a year or so we and the other teams in the area here will get our acts together and we can have a major off-season event in a place where the weather is decent

It was great to meet so many of the people that hang out here on CD as well. There was general agreement on the trip home that while we didn't win much, the trip was still a success.

[Chris Hibner]

Once again, the IRI was a GREAT competition that was a lot of fun for everyone. Congratulations to the organizing teams for organizing a great event and congratulations to the participating teams for making the event what it was.

A big thanks to the Huskie Brigade for picking us for the eliminations. We're sorry that we had problems with our goal latches. I think metal fatigue is starting to become an issue with our robot.

Thanks also to Chief Delphi for playing with us and being great partners.

I'll see most of you again at the Sweet Repeat. If not, I hope to see you next year.

Later,

Chris

[Eismann]

I'd like to say congrats to our girls. Us guys really had a hard time watching the girls beat us. Although our pit crew did fix there robot when it broke. But they did the driving so I guess I can't agrue that.