Congratulations to teams 190, 177, and 987 for winning the 2007 Championship!!!
Great job to teams 233, 71, and 179 for putting up an awesome fight!
New England represent!!
Congrats all!
Nice matches and great play 190, 177, and 987.
Also 233, 71, and 179.
Teams 177, 987, 190 are the 2007 Champs of Rack & Roll. Great job! It was a intense finals, coming down to the final seconds of a third match. A real nail biter. Team 71 the Beatty Beast is going to wait another year for their 5th title. Good job to all of the teams that competed.
Congratulation’s are in order!!! Job Well Done!
GOOOO NEWTON…
i actualy feel kinda good that my team tied against a leader of an alliance (regionals) that has beaten the new world champ at Newton semis =]
A job well done to all the finalists!
Congratulations you guys!
177 and 190, this has been a long time coming.
Wow that was an exciting match. Good job you guys on both alliances. Hope for more good matches in the future.
The Number 8 Seed from the division no one thought had a shot.
Congratulations! You guys did amazing!!!
As did everyone else! Great job everyone!
Congratulations to 177, 190, and 987 for earning their first world championship. GO NEW ENGLAND TEAMS!!! You guys have been playing since 1995 (177) and 1992 (190) and you totally deserve this. Great Job! And great job to 987 as well. And it’s even cooler that you guys won the championship as an 8 seed.
awesome job guys!!
also, great job to team 365. of course winning a chairmans is awesome!
Congratulations to 190, 177, and 987 for earning their first world championship.
Couldn’t be there in person but definitely loved seeing those nailbiter matches on the webcast.
190 you guys are an awesome group. We’re very happy for all of you and proud that we know you.
Great job! Way to come up from the number 8 seed! Congratulations guys, you all deserved it and the finals were very exciting and very well played.
Oh the insanity of the final matches!!! It was awesome… that rack was really racking and rollin I must say. Sad to think this is my last year as a student on the team sniff sniff But it was amazing 
Congrats to NEWTON on taking it home 987, 190, and 177… amazing job!!! Yall were fantastic and played those last matches really well… very well deserved
side note - way to go MOE!!!
As I recall it 987 actually seeded ninth in Newton and became 8th alliance captain during the selection process. This illustrates an important idea – strength and seed are not strongly correlated. 987 was a very strong team that seeded outside the top eight. Luck of the draw had a lot to do with that.
987 also did two things very well: (1) they scouted and picked to complement their own strengths, and (2) they practiced – a lot. I witnessed some that second part as a volunteer overseeing the Galileo/Newton practice field on Thursday and Friday. When 987 learned that they could get extra practice field time by camping out and waiting for no-shows, they made that part of their preparation strategy. Seems like every time I had a no-show for a scheduled practice time and was looking for a team ready to fill the slot, 987 was right there.
Two lessons: practice makes perfect, and knowledge is power. Congratulation to the winners 987, 190, 177.
A side note: many of us in the Newton stands were really impressed by the solidarity this alliance displayed when they elected to go into battle dressed all in 190 shirts. One alliance, working together, awesome to behold.
190 was the A.C. 987 ranked in the low 30’s.
1/3 of the championship alliance give you some insight into their design and build process.
Congratulations guys. Can’t wait to see you all on Monday!
Congratulations to teams 190, 177, and 987 for their 2007 Championship win!
The official team colors (and hence tee shirts) of teams 190, 177, and 987 were all maroon anyway.
Actually, we just happened to pick partners with the same color shirts as us (a fun bonus to getting two awesome partners). If you looked up in the stands, we were one big mass of maroon shirts, all standing up and cheering at the same time.