National Team "Social"
 

What are they doing for the "Social" in Houston. Were is it and what are we going to do without music.:confused:

Dunno, but my guess would be the Six Flags there... there's a shuttle from the stadium to get there so it's probable that FIRST has booked the place.

If you take a look here you will read in the first paragraph what the team social for the Championship event is. They have not posted on other venues as to weather or not they are streamlined and what will be cut from the streamlined events.

FIRST recently sent out a reminder to team contacts to update the number of students that will be attending the team social at each regional.

It seems that the determination of which regionals will become "streamlined" depends on the number of students attending. So, maybe FIRST is shuttling money around a bit this season. But, with that said, I haven't the slightest idea whether highly attended regionals or smaller regionals would be chosen to have a social. More people results in higher cost, perhaps, but with a larger pay off?

Who knows?

National "Team Social"
 

Remember your team needs to purchase the "Hotel Packages" if you plan on attending any of the FIRST activities at Six Flags.

The only exception is if your team is from the "Greater Houston Area"

So buy those packages - No Tickee, No Party

I've got connections and I can tell you that FIRST isn't happy about the streaminlining. One thing I can tell, many regionals might dump the party and go with a cheeper social where drinks are served and music is played. This would allow other places to keep the video wall and their social.

That incident happened at a regional, not at nationals...

I'm getting REALLY tired of this. I probably don't like the music you listen to or the morals of those that create it, but I don't make snide remarks about them either.

Ms Moore is a professional musician, she came out and did a job which she was either asked or paid to do. Unlike much of the stuff people who post here listen to, apparently her music does fit the guidelines FIRST considers appropriate.

Leave the poor girl alone, will you. Either that or start listening to music that has socially redeeming content.

My feelings exactly ... well, except for maybe that last sentence. ;)

Anyway, back to the team social.

What are everyone's feelings on having to have the hotel packages in order to get into the party?

This is something our team is struggling with right now ... The cost of one of the packages will be, for us, about $4,000 more than what it would be if we stayed at a hotel of our choosing. Now, I do realize that the cost of the party (food, opening the park for FIRST, etc.) is covered in some of that $4,000 ... but it still seems a little much. What do you think?

- Katie

Buy those "Hotel Packages"
 

Katie, I feel your pain - the cost difference for our team is in excess of $6000.00. You have to realize that these additional fees cover alot of different things: Food Tickets, Two Day Tickets to Six Flags - one night exclusively for FIRST - there are TWO special events, one Friday Night, and another BBQ on Saturday night, transportation to and from hotels, commitments to Hotels to hold rooms, administration and service fees, plus allowing teams to do one stop shopping for all their travel needs. And for some teams that's priceless.....

Even with the additional costs I'd be willing to bet a box of Crispy Creams that it is less expensive this year, than what you paid for the packages last year at WDW.:p

:-(
 

we can't afford the package, which means there will be no team 21 at the social...

Maybe we could rent out a club or something?

Re: Buy those "Hotel Packages"
 

We never paid for the packages at WDW ... We always stayed at the Best Western in Lake Buena Vista (gotta love those balconies!!) :)

Oh, I misspoke before ... it will cost us $4,000 than what it did last year. It will be $5,500 more, than if we were to stay at the hotel of our choosing. Anyway, carry on!

- Katie

Ouch
 

Ouch, guess I owe you a box of Crispy Creams - do they have them in Houston?

See you at the Nationals - hope you find me before Dave Lavery does - doing the Gila Dance makes you real hungry and since he's now an honorary "Gila" he was promised a lesson. And we ALL know how Dave loves those Crispy Cream Dounuts....:yikes:

Re: Ouch
 

NOOOOO!!!!!!!!! How could you butcher that which is the goodness of Krispy Kremes?!?!?!?!?

No more Krispy Kremes for you until you spell em right :D

Cory

I find your statment extremely offensive, the person INJURED at a regional was my team mate, and best friend. It's not in the slightest bit funny. Chris nearly died, and it wasn't his fault. Unknown people picked him up, forcing him to be passed around the crowd. He was dropped, landing on his head, and suffered a massive head injury as a result. Chris is doing a ton better now, he's back to his usuall self, but is still dependant on pain killers and also has to go to frequent doctor's appointments. This disgusts me, for your own personal benifit, I suggest you retract your statement.


As for the lack of music, so what...it's still fun. There's plenty of music during the competitons, ( who cares if it's the same 9 songs over and over again ).

Krispy Kream. It's spelled with K's Don.

And to to back up evulish, I don't think Mandy Moore's music style was the problem, but the fact that FIRST paid her to do something we frankly could care less about (no offense). Evulish simply was saying that if they skipped Moore and went with the lazer show or something, they would save money and have something everyone would like.

if someone can get a venue, i'm sure i can arrange entertainment (PROPER and GOOD entertainment lol)

*jeremy

If anyone from FIRST is out there reading, try to get DMB that would be a great choice.

Also how about someone smaller like Incubus, I went to their concert here in manchester... it was great!

I saw July for Kings, they where good too!

How about Blue Man Group? I hear they have a new CD comming out. :yikes:

Spelling
 

With all the horrible spelling of words in all the other posts on the board, I didn't think anyone would even notice.

Okay - KRISPY KREMES - but does anyone know if you can buy them in Houston?

They are good to eat no matter how you spell them....... Hot, Fresh, Melt in your Mouth Goodness

Krispy Kreme in Houston
 

You gotta love the internet!

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510 WEST BAY AREA BLVD HOUSTON 281-338-7740

7630 NORTH HWY 6 HOUSTON 281-656-2442

12403 WESTHEIMER HOUSTON 281-759-1154

5930 RICHMOND AVE. HOUSTON 832-252-1674

930 MAIN STREET HOUSTON 713-571-6525

Yahoooooooo!:D

yes! i will eat a maddening number of krispy kremes!
:D yeah, i hope my team actually STAYS for the team social this year, if not, maybe i'l just hang out with the wo-bots again.

My problem isn't with anybody's prefered musical style. It is with the repeated snide remarks about Ms Moore's appearance at Nationals last year.

I don't know whether she was paid or not. I really don't care. I don't know that I've even heard her music as my tastes are definitely not main stream (Zydeco and Celtic) and regretfully, I wasn't there.

BUT she was a "guest in our camp" so to speak. She was invited to be there. As such, she deserves at least the respect we give each other instead of being treated like some kind of inside joke.

If I paid somebody to paint the inside of my house purple and green, (or pick your own tasteless combination) you could question MY taste. But it would be inappropriate to criticize the painter for doing what he was asked, even if he specializes in purple and green. Doing so in the local newspaper is even worse.

If you didn't like her music, or her performance that's your problem. Just don't keep bringing it up. I would be embarassed to have her reading this forum. In my mind, that is a problem all by itself. It's been nine months, get over it.

And in all honesty, you could've skipped her performance entirely. We went to Disney right before she started and they were allowing us into the party at that point.

I'm no Mandy Moore fan, but I mean really now...does it mean THAT much to you to complain about something that could've totally been avoided THIS long afterwards?

*jeremy

Mandy Moore
 

I have been involved with FIRST since 1998 and have seen many changes. The change that bothers me the most has been the attitude of some of the students. One of the underlying concepts of FIRST has been gracious professionalism. The night of the Mandy Moore concert will go down as the most embarrasing I have seen. Mandy Moore didn't ask to be there, she was asked to be there. The mass exodus of FIRST participants was sad. I am not a Mandy Moore fan, but I was willing to stay and watch the show. It seems if the entertainment isn't perfect, many feel walking out is OK. There is nothing gracious or professional about this type of action. We should be very careful, or our attitudes will harm FIRST more than any change of venue could ever do.

enh, music... just hire a dj man.... i really could have gone without mandy moore and i walked out. but for the people that were fans then i guess it all worked out. hahaha, some guys on our team had a band last year, northpoint, and they threw a copy of their cd to her, i don't know if anything came of it though, but i suppose not because they all went to college and are now broken up.

Ok, this was all discussed to death last year.

Let's get back on topic.

- Katie

Before that, lets add one quick thing

How about The Clash? ;)

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I believe your sig says "Its all fun and games until someone gets hurt... then its hilarious!!!". Please retract your sig as I find your hipocracy offensive.
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edit: pwned++

that was a mighty blasting, if only we could get that picture of the cow being kicked yeah you know which one im talking about lol