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.
Wisconsin Regional
Emcee: Tyler Olds
Game Announcer: Ryan Dognaux
Florida Regional
Emcee - Greg Hale / Arefin Bari
Announcer - Arefin Bari / Dan Richardson
^these guys were great, even though all i saw was the webcast…
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
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…