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I'm an artist, darnit!Not an engineer!


Gawd, I'm so embarrassed.... :o

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newbz0r ;)

its ok u gotta learn 1337 sometime :) or ull get teh pwnT in teh f4c3 ;)

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um... i think there is only 938 or 958 something like that this year... dont let the 1XXX teams fool you!


w00t 666!!!

if your 555 then i'm 666! what's it like to be a heretic? if your 555 im 666!!! what's it like to be a HERETIC!?!!

(sorry i had to sing that... slipknot lives inside me... need... more... metal... \m/ (also said it cause my name =P)

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Don't feel embarrased Ed, Engineers don't speak Geek..
(well I guess they do, but not this dialect of Geek)
Only Geeks speak this type of Geek speak.

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1337 = leet = elite

see

http://www.thenetw0rk.com/features/leet.shtml

for a not so bad translator...

As for the language, you'll be better off learning chinese! :D

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there are also slightly differentent variations of 1337, like the type you find in CS will be a bit different from say War3.

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is it just me or is l337 making its way into everyday talk? I've caught quite a few adults saying owned a few times. not normal owned, but the l337 PWNED! type of owned. meh...

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is ther any team older than baxter that still play?? they are 16....(and i had the honor of compeatign with them :D )

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Yes. 19, 45, 126, 190, 191, 250.

And more. Lots more.

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I doubt it's much of a coincidence that all the teams that have won the Chairman's Award are older teams. My view is that FIRST thinks there are many worthy of the Chairman's Award and the older teams are going to be the ones that are going to receive the honor first as they've waited longer. Frankly, I'm just happy that we aren't seeing the same Chairman's Awards Finalists year after year as seemed to be happening a few years ago.

Matt

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Actually according to the FIRST database there are 1014. 935 of those are from the USA.

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Has anyone else noticed the several of the schools that hosted FIRST Regionals are in the NCAA Basketball Tournament? Ex. VCU, UCF, etc.

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That page you linked is the database from all teams that competed in the 2003 and/or the 2004 competitions combined. If you look HERE (FIRST 2004 Database) you will see only 930 teams are competing this year.

There has yet to be a year where over 999 teams total competed, look for it in our near future.

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Oops.. It seems the interactive map on the FIRST site, still references 2003, not 2004. I just assumed that their query was correct...