pic: John, Ken, Adrienne, and I at the GTR.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by JVN

Adrienne and I road-tripped it up to Toronto to watch our friends on 1114, and 1511. You can imagine our surprise when they ended up winning the regional together.

We let them win, dangit!!!!!! LOL, man, that was a fun finals to participate in. If you have to lose (and 48 corners the market on finishing 2nd), you always want to lose to alliances like that. I'm just glad we could put on a good finals show for such *prestigious* American visitors as were in attendance that weekend blah blah blah.....!

Originally Posted by JVN

Thanks for sharing this picture, it brings back fun memories.

Indeed. I stopped up to visit this crew in the stands (minus Jay, whom I don't ever recall seeing at the competition - was he chasing girls all weekend or something? ) to give the /0'ers a 229 team pic from the Buckeye Regional. I left with the knowledge that Ken is opposed to having his robot classified as a "ballerina". It was great having them all there....even JVN!

I just want to know, will all these "American spies" scouting the Canadian events from the stands and beyond ever attempt to obtain the best possible scouting report by bringing their teams to Canada and competing at GTR and Waterloo? Are you afraid? Baby steps, eh? If we can't have a larger American presence on the field, it is definitely nice to see them represented in the seats.