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Might have been 2000 then... before divisions. I remember Watt from somewhere, by my old age causes me to blur some of the Disney years together.

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2002...I was 6 and didn't know what FIRST was. :-/

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Divisions didn't start until 2001. In 2000 you had about 200 robots all in one big division. It was a scouting and alliance selection nightmare.

I think Watt was a division name for FLL or FTC/FVC.

I was sure Einstein, Newton, and Curie were the divisions. I could have sworn my old match videos I had from 2001/2002 were "Galileo-XXX.mov" but I looked last night and the were indeed "Arch-XXX.mov".

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'99 was the first year for pink but 2002 was the first year for a blue banner - archimedes division winner!

i remember having to move around from division to division. no saving seats cause you were always changing until the finals! pink used to sit at the top of the bleachers when we were outside so we could set up "pop up" tents over the seats.

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I was there! It was my senior year on team 87.

I think this was also a year they handed glow in the dark grey t-shirt to everyone in attendance? It was either 2001 or 2002? I think it was a 10 year anniversary t-shirt. Anyone still have one of those?

Nate

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My favorite memory of Disney were these Led thing-a-majigs you spun like a party favor that you could painstakingly set up words that would appear when you spun them clockwise. I had programmed several words but my favorite was "Applause"
While waiting in line for Imagination, I would spin it and everyone would applaud. I would stop and they would stop. It was a great feeling of POWER :D

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The 10th anniversary shirts with the glow in the dark FIRST logo were given out in 2001. I didn't realize they glowed in the dark until I rode the Tower of Terror wearing mine. I still have it, but it doesn't glow anymore.

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I was thinking the same thing.

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Ah, the good old days where your match schedule didn't just tell you your color, but which field you were on.

I know at least one of the Disney years had the top 5 robots get pits at the top of the stands - probably '96? Of course, that was back in double elimination time, so I don't know how'd they choose a top 5. It's amazing what time does to memories. Must have been 99 then when the first alliances were formed.

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I've got two in my refrigerator. :)

They passed those things out early because it was so dang hot in the stands during Einstein/closing ceremonies.

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I would estimate that the majority of them were used for water fights in the stands

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I am probably the only person that guessed based on nothing to do with FIRST. The wand structure around Spaceship Earth existed from 2000 to 2007. After 2000, the numbers "2000" were replaced by the word "Epcot" in mid-2001. Therefore, the only year CMP could be in Disney with that wand is 2002.

I'm weird.

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Just remembered something that I miss which ended in 2002... The police lights and the matching covers that identified which alliance a robot was on! Not saying that we should go back to this, but it was something very memorable for me. Probably the only thing cool about 2001 was having 4 different colors of covers. Do you remember the four colors?!?!

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Oh I remember the colors.

Let's go yellow and green alliance next year, just for kicks.

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I do. I also remember quite a few shattered covers from the lights in 2003--you know, the ones that screwed onto the base instead of being velcroed to the frame. I seem to recall that 236 broke quite a few going under the 14" bar in Galileo. 330 didn't break any that way, something about not going under the bar much in the first place and when they did, the light would retract into the robot and pop right back up.