Championship Thanks and Final Thoughts

[Ken Loyd]

WOW!!!

What a great Championship!

I would like to thank everyone involved with FIRST for staging a super event. Sure there were small things that erked me at times, but they were far outweighed by all the positives.

I would like to thank Team 222 for selecting us and team 1405 for giving your all. I am proud of our alliance!

I would like to thank all the teams who helped us go 6 and 1.

I would like to thank the great folks from team 1108 for sharing your seats on Friday. I am sorry we had to face you in our first final series.

I would like to thank Team RAGE for the hanging award.

I would like to thank all the Gila Monster team members. You made this a great year.

I would like to thank all our parents for your outstanding support thourghout the year.

There is no way to adaquately thank General Motors and the employees at the Desert Proving Grounds. Watching all the excited GM teams at the Ice Cream Social on Friday says it all.

Finally, I would like to thank my wife (I hope she remembers me.) To all the FIRST widows out there, THANK YOU!

[Nick Mac]

This years national truly was the best one I've ever been to. It was so much fun. Our team was kind of dissapointed after not getting picked after losing only one match. Irregardless, in Newton we had 21 regional winners which just made the competition that much better. Every match was interesting, every alliance was dangerous and every team could be considered a friend. I can't wait for next year, its going to be a blast.

[tiffany34990]

I say thanks to everyone for a great nationals-- everyone did a great job-- it was def great robots out there!

But S.P.A.M. even though we didn't make it to the final rounds-- we finally got to pick-- 7-0 in seeding rounds-- so that made history in our books---

But Nationals was intresting and i know all have fun-- as always great to see Woodie, Dean and Dave-- those guys are awesome!!!

[The First Lady]

I would like to thank all the teams for making our cueing job fun!!!!!!!!!!! You were awsome and maked sure things ran smoothly. I would also like to thank all the teams for bring us presents. We couldn't get to the pits and you brought the pits to us. We wore your buttons and give-aways proudly. Thanks to Dave, Tom, Frank, Matt, John, Dwane, Nancy, Gene, and Jim for making such a great cueing team on the floor and in the pits. I had a blast and hope to see you all next year.

[TD78]

Just a general thanks to Team 45 for the TechnoKat playing cards they gave out in Atlanta. Rob and I went around on Friday and asked some FIRSTers to sign the cards. Some examples of the signatures we receieved include: Dean, Woody, Dave Lavery, Aidan Browne, JVN, Andy Baker, Ken Patton, Bill and Brian Beatty, Mike and Brandon Martus, Liz Calef, JVN, D@ve, and many, many more. Only a few cards are left over that went unsigned; after we get a complete set then we will probably frame them or something of that nature. Until then over the next few days we hope to post a few pictures of them, so keep a sharp lookout!!!

-Tom

[Mark McLeod]

Thanks to Team 782 -Kilowatts and Team 341 -Miss Daisy for inviting us to play in the Galileo finals! It took the National Finalists to beat us!

Congratulations to Miss Daisy for your Honorable Mention as Chairman's Award Finalists! You run a consistently great educational and out-reach program.

Congratulations to MOE for your well earned Imagery Award. Your spirit and GP are a huge presence (and you're hard to miss in those fluorescent green shirts ). Hey, my computer is acting up why do you think that is?