Sent, by me, fearless team captain, to the inner-core of the team on July 29, the day before we left for Atlanta:

Jesse is talking to Dick Nunn right now and I have a few things to say:

I say this to you, Northern Bites: we have the fire.

Over the past six weeks we have had the highest highs and the lowest lows. Deluded visions of grandeur and depressingly bleak predictions. We’ve broken three robots, made countless runs to D^2, inured ourselves to Imogen Heap, screamed ‘ROLL!! UNROLL!!’.

It’s time to up it up. Let’s win this f-ing thing