Great Lakes Regional
Dave Verbrugge: MC
Paul Copioli: Play by Play
West Michigan Regional:
Dave Verbrugge: MC
Dan Green: Play by Play
Greater Toronto Regional:
Karthik Kanagasabapathy: MC
Steve Warren and Charles Offor: Announcers
Buckeye Regional:
Dave Verbrugge: MC
JonnDar Bradshaw: Announcer
While we are talking about these folks, did anyone hear what happened on San Diego on Saturday? The Emcee sails in in a boat! A BOAT! A real like 18 foot sailboat with blue banner sails! Right in front of the field! And the judges come in wearing all this beach gear, and throwing gigantic beach balls into the crowd, and like 50 people storm the field throwing rings everywhere, and it was just insane.
St. Louis Regional:
MC = Ryan Dognaux
Game Announcer = Ben James
Pittsburgh:
MC: Wayne Penn
Announcer: John Lock
Boilermaker:
Ryan Dognaux: MC. He was also MC at St. Louis.
Collin Fultz: Announcer - In my opinion, one of the best I’ve heard.
Both come originally from Cyber Blue.
Lone Star
Kris Verdeyen: MC
Tim Rosas: Announcer
Both local to the houston area.
Waterloo Regional
Karthik Kanagasabapathy: Master of Ceremonies
Paul Copioli: Game Announcer
FLR
Ellery Wong MC
JonnDar Bradshaw Announcer
Detroit:
Steve Warren - MC
Dave Verbrugge - Announcer
That would take some serious getting used to.
I’ll more than likely be there, I can’t wait.
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.
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.
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.
NJ/NYC/Philly
MC: Wayne Penn
Game Announcer: George “The Voice” Ackley
A boat towed by mascots…You had to be there to believe it/experience it. I hope somebody has pictures/video somewhere. Verbrugge’s going to have a hard time topping that one at Championship.
Arizona Regional
Jeff Seaton = Emcee
Don Knight = Game Announcer
Kansas City Regional
Blair Hundertmark = Emcee
Don Knight = Game Announcer
San Diego Regional
Blair Hundertmark = Emcee
Don Knight and Tim Peterson = Game Announcers
Las Vegas Regional
Mark Leon = Emcee
Don Knight = Game Announcer (Saturday Only)
Eric you are right! The opening ceremonies on Saturday morning were something to behold. Thanks to the “Team San Diego” group it went off great and the crowd went wild!!! The team Social at the Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park was also an evening not to be forgotten.
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.