2007 FIRST Regionals Play by Play Announcer/Emcee Edition

[Koko Ed]

FLR
Ellery Wong MC
JonnDar Bradshaw Announcer

[Steve W]

Detroit:

Steve Warren - MC
Dave Verbrugge - Announcer

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Steve W

Detroit:

Steve Warren - MC
Dave Verbrugge - Announcer

That would take some serious getting used to.

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Steve W

Detroit:

Steve Warren - MC
Dave Verbrugge - Announcer

Really?

Did you just decide to switch it up?

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Really?

Did you just decide to switch it up?

I think Steve's MC'd Detroit every year - certainly since 2005. I forget who was announcer in the past, but it wasn't always Dave.

[Dan Petrovic]

BAE Granite State
MC - Lucas Marrow (not sure if that's how you spell his name...)
Play by Play - Bill Larkin

Best pair I've seen?

Einstein 2006
MC - Dave Verbrugge
Play by Play - Bill Larkin

Simply amazing.

[Steve W]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Really?

Did you just decide to switch it up?

The first year at Detroit I was the announcer and Paul C was the MC. Since then I have been the MC and Dave has been the announcer. I was suppose to be the announcer but Dave asked to switch. I agreed but was really intimidated that year. It has now been 3 years that Dave and I have worked together and he has helped me out lots. I always offer him the MC job but I think that he likes announcing for a change.

[Libby K]

NJ/NYC/Philly
MC: Wayne Penn
Game Announcer: George "The Voice" Ackley

[George A.]

Originally Posted by Libby K

NJ/NYC/Philly
MC: Wayne Penn
Game Announcer: George "The Voice" Ackley

I'm not going to lie...without Wayne these competitions won't be much. About 60% of the credit for the exciting regionals belong to that man (the other 40% belonging to the robots) I don't think I've ever seen a MC pump up a crowd as much as Wayne does.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Wisconsin Regional

Emcee: Tyler Olds
Game Announcer: Ryan Dognaux

[Rohith Surampudi]

Florida Regional

Emcee - Greg Hale / Arefin Bari
Announcer - Arefin Bari / Dan Richardson

^these guys were great, even though all i saw was the webcast...

[Gene F]

VCU Regional

Jeff Seaton = Emcee
Dan Greene and Gene Falendysz = Game Announcers

Peachtree Regional

Troy Thrash = Emcee (Alliance selection and support Gene Falendysz)
Charles Peterson (Sir. Charles) and Gene Falendysz = Game Announcers

Palmetto Regional

Gene Falendysz = Emcee (Support from Greg Welsch and Terrel Burch)
Barry Hudson = Game Announcer

[dhitchco]

This is a GOOD thread.......FIRST should be able to ADD the names of the MC and game announcer to their official web site list of all regional events.

For Finger Lakes Regional, now in its 3rd year, this year's MC and game announcer were fantastic. After some last-minute changes and shuffles, Ellery Wong from Xerox came forward as the Master of ceremonies and did a great job over three days! The game announcer , JonnDar Bradshaw, was also fantastic, especially given that FLR had a video simulcast over our local cable TV provider (Time-Warner) and JohnDar did a great "color commentary" for the at-home viewers.

Kudos to both of them....FIRST should really add the names of all the MCs, game announcers, heads of regional committees, etc to the main web site.....