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I was wondering if there where any other teams going or staying a day more and if so what is there to do in atlanta??? 6flags is closed untill the weekends what is open and fun to do lets say on a wendsday??

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One word:
Lockdown!
Thank God for video consoles and laptops! :)

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our team is looking into going to six flags sunday beofre we leave if we can or some other tourist thing as a team.

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Our team if offcially "breaking up into small groups" on wednesday(we fly in tues) but things i have heard are good are the Coke Headquaters, i went to the CNN center, and it was pretty neat, but short. Some of the malls are nice, although i don't remember what ones we went to (3 in one day.....)
Wish i could come with you guys to Six Flags, but i think my team leaves in the afternoon-time

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We might go to a Braves game. And the Coke HQ and just look around.

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yeah our team is also flying in on tuesday our flight out of here (CA) is at 10 and ist like a 5 or 6 hour flight so we should arive in atl around 6 or 7pm (ATL time) and my team was going to do something on wendsday because we desicede not to get the FIRST package and do our own thing and we are trying to find places to go and all the places we thought of so far are all closed in the weekdays so if and body gots any cool places let me know

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There are plenty of places to go if you have transportation.
Stone Mountain about 20min from downtown. Nice park area, 4-d theater, tons of other things.
Dave & Bustersabout 15min food and games including VR
World of Coke in downtown a museum about coke and connected to the underground Atlanta shopping center (mall and food)
Tons of shopping any direction from downtown within 20 min

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The braves don't play on wednesday, I believe we're going on either friday or saturday. Should be a good series against the Marlins, although I bet we'll all be too tired to really enjoy the game :P

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Hacky sack all day long and play some soccar and video games and just hang out around town

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sorry no xbox in atlanta, that was awsome in cleveland you should have came over and played some halo... but i am bringing a laptop so that'll take some time off...

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this is a question for people who ever flew with a game system with them? How is the people at the air ports handel game systems I mean do they check them or just let u go or not let u on with is? because I wanna take my ps2 with me to Atlanta but im just concerend that thay might get suspious with a big black box but knowing its a ps2 but till want to open it up to see inside?? if anyone has an answer for that please let me know

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They make you X-ray it as a carry on. they treat just like they do a normal laptop. Xbox LAN party at the marquis i cant watie!!

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Are you planning on having it carry on or putting it with your checked luggage? Remember not to lock anything since they do random searches of luggage and if it's locked they will break it open.

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I was at Bradley back in June and they had someone several people in front of us take out a laptop and boot it up. Needless to say it would have inhaled audibly if the battery was dead or if it was removed from the laptop. I believe that was random too. I can't picture them having everyone turn on thier electronic items before boarding.
I flew to Chicago in June and when I opened my luggage at the hotel there was a piece of paper in there telling me that they had searched my luggage. It mentioned that if it had been locked they'd have broken the lock. Most airlines websites will also have information mentioning how certain things should be packed and what's banned for carry on.

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well i was plaing on putting it with my checked bags because I have a big enough suite case that will fit a weeks worth of clothes, all my higene stuff, and my ps2+2 controlers+ all the hook ups+ my 6disk box game holder. which way would it be easier? with my bag or just put in another hand bag and take it as a carry-on

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come one people... you are going to atlanta, and all you can talk about is playing video games?! :ahh: Go out and do something fun. You can play games every day of your life...

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but its more fun when you cram 16 people into 4 rooms at night when there is nothing better to do and kick each other's arse's in a free-for-all... its fun just thinking about it... =D

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On Sunday, right before our flight, we're headed out to Coke HQ. I can't wait to see all of the Diet Coke stuffs!

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Diet Coke is the official unofficial beverage of team 121, and I'm really hoping we get to go to Coke World when we arrive in Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon. Diet coke is the best! :D

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I think you'd be better off putting it in your checked baggage and not carrying it on. Also with carry on some of those overhead compartments don't have much space especially when you have others in the seats near you.

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Disclaimer:This is the opinion of Bridgette and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of everyone on Team 121.

Slurms, although not an actual drink, should be our official beverage..

Not play video game consoles in Atlanta? come on.. it wouldn't be a party without xbox. We had some very good Madden and Halo tournaments at UTC but I hope there is a better turnout at nationals. I guess I'll go bowling in Atlanta. That should be fun. I've got a lot of family there so I'm going to ask one of my cousins what there is to do...

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384 will spend the day touring Coke, CNN, and the Underground on Wednesday. Look for us around the Omni Thurs-Sun. I want to meet people!

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Ok so what did your teams dislike or like about where you went in Atlanta last year?

Here is what we did:

World of Coca Cola, I thought it was pretty cool, but it sure did not take long to tour. I liked tasting all of the different flavors of their products from around the world.

CNN, I thought this a big waste of money. It was basically a long escelator ride and then just look at our newsrooms.

Underground, It wasn't too exciting for me...

STONE MOUNTAIN, this was great. The only disapointing thing was the lift was shut down do to wind. It is a long walk up that mountain! This is a great attraction for sight seeing even though it is a bit of a ride 30 minutes?

We also went to a baseball game, but I personally didn't go because I do not like baseball.

Anything different that your teams did?

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Tutti Fruiti is a flavor that should be locked away in a lab forever.

A little off topic: Did any one else find it particularly amusing that a Pepsi sponsored team won the championship in the hometown of Coke?

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I don't know exactly what our team has planned.

I will say that what I look forward to most is just hanging out with people, meeting people, and frolic-ing about in the hotel. In the evening, it's a great time to get acquinated. w00t. - Genia

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Where leaving the on Tuesday I think, but I'm not really sure of what where doing.

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Our Team didn't like the Underground either.

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What other teams are planning on having X-box LAN parties, and what hotels will you be in? (yes, I know there is another thread for "where everyone is staying") My friends and I will be bringing x-boxes in the event that my team makes it to Atlanta. Just out of curiosity, what other teams will have wall projectors for their Chairman's Award presentation? ;)

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I'll probably bring my laptop to use in my spare time, even though i'm not to "excited" about bringing it on an airplane and gettings it x-rayed and such. Cell phones are also fun to use to play games and chat on the internet.

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halo. custom maps.

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Getting my laptop x-rayed fixed a problem I had with my cd drive somehow. It didn't work before, but worked after.

I'm pretty certain we are making plans to get a nice halo 2 game going on.. hopefully over 802.1b connections (I can use my laptop as a bridge, and one of my friends has a game adapter)

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our team is leaving at 5:00 in the morning wednesday I think, and we're taking a charter bus down. we didn't want to take a plane because we like sitting with eachother for 15 hours on a bus... besides, we've yet to completly master playing card games on a bus. I think Dan said he was bringing his guitar, and the goodness of G rated movies from Disney...

Besides, it's fun to take pictures of a senior when he steals your beanie baby panther and sleeps with it... of course he took the picture and ripped it up and said Freshman need to be nice to their seniors... like that's going to happen... I argue with everyone on the team.

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Does anyone know when and how long these places are open? My team is bothering me for times... If anyone has any answers they can log onto Team 74's Forum. People keep on asking me for times and all I can answer with is either "I'm too busy to find out" or "I don't know" or a combination of the two.

FYI: the link will take you directly to the thread.

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does anyone wanna put together an unnofficial XBOX/HALO2 comp at atlanta? ill be bringing my XBOX with HALO2 so yeah. how many people can you have at one time on halo2?/?

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I spoke with an employee at Stone Mountain last week. The park is open until midnight, howver they are not set up for their official season as of the Championships, so attractions may or may not be open. I inquired about hosting a teambuilding event during the evening, followed by their laserlight show. The show is not running then. The teambuilding would have been too expensive for our team, unfortunately. I sent them material about FIRST so they could try and arrange to have regular activities open when we are there next year.

The SciTrek science museum held special events for FIRST last year but I see they suspended operations in August 2004.

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Like last year, we are i think goin to the Braves game again and going to the Underground place.

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I have heard rumors were going to a Braves game...I want to do something because last year we did nothing the whole time when we weren't at the dome. :(

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My suggestion is to load up on coins and find an arcade :D