MARC 2010 IS OPEN

[Craig Roys]

I would also like to thank Steve and Team 1528 for hosting the event. This event keeps getting better each year. Also thanks to all the volunteers for their work keeping things going dispite the difficulties. I thought the reffing was very well done - thanks Gary for your patience as we tried to get our robot back up and running...of course we then had the field issues that caused the big delay - it was definitely a hurry up and wait scenario for us.

From the mentor matches:
Thanks (I think ) to 573 for loaning us the skirts - they'll make for some good embarrasing photos. I think we have a bunch up on facebook already.
Thanks to 1918 - It was good to win one with you guys.
It may have only been mentor matches, but believe me when I say everyone was out there to win and they were some very competitive matches as evidenced by a 14-11 final match.

From the real tournament:
Thanks to 33. We love working with you guys - the double hangs are fun. It took until the offseason, but both of us have finally been able to get a win!
Thanks to 1528 for your rebounding. As Jim said, it was a key to us being able to win.
Thanks to 326 for saving us in the semis - we were doomed without you. It's too bad we weren't able to have you in there more.

Lastly, I need to thank my pit crew for rebuilding one of our toughbox transmissions during eliminations - and we only missed one match w/out using a timeout! Thanks to Jack Jones and 2612 for having the spare toughbox parts available. Oh yeah, at the same time we had to do some patchwork on a weld the broke loose so we could continue to hang - thanks Isaac for your help on that. It seems when you get to 100+ matches things start to wear down - go figure. We definitely have some work to do to get our robot ready for IRI, but we'll be ready.