Yeah, according to the 2002 Team Roster, which I haven't updated since October, average experience at VCU is 1.86 years, with the So Cal and Silicon Valley regionals being the only two with less (1.33 and 1.76, respectively). I am sure there will be some great Rookie bots and teams, as there always are. and I agree that the mix of veteran teams with first year teams will make for interesting play and strategy. I can't wait to get to the competitions!

I want to be in a match with 401 or 927 as an alliance partner...
To whom do we give our list of prefered partners?:D

I haven't heard much about 927, who are they?

927 is a local first year team of homeschoolers that we are mentoring and making drive shafts for on our lathe.

We're looking forward to hopfully play with 116, 122, or 825. 825 is the team we're mentoring. Isn't this team mentoring team stuff great?

Hmmm... teams that I'd like to play a round or two with. Definitly 365 and 116 after seeing both you guys up in DC (and also seeing your bots last year). 401, I'm not sure if I want to play a match with you guys as much as I want to play a match against you. ;) Some of our mentors were telling me the other day that you guys really want to play us, especially since a bunch of ya were formally on 122.

~Tom Fairchild~, who can't wait to see all the other teams at VCU!!

Hey, TomFairchild! How about a picture of your bot?

With, against, what's the difference! And yeah, 401's definately a second generation team. All of the founding members were formally of 116 or 122, and we have even more who've joined who were formally of 122.

I'm working on it! We'll have some pics up before VCU, at the very latest. Right now I'm trying to get all the pics together that show our different strengths. Somewhere in another thread I posted all that our 'bot is able to do. Gotta go eat now, but I'll see what I can do about the pics.

~Tom Fairchild~