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Ok so what did you and your team do for fun in the hotel. Are team (Team Fusion 364) had a blast in the hotel how you ask a TOGA PARTY. Yes about half the team took there bed sheets and made them into togos'. We had alot of fun just sitting around in togos'. Sure we got in trouble but we had alot of fun. So what did you do in the Hotel to stay from going nuts with bordem.

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a few kids on our team played a game we call human jenga. its like jenga, except with people lol. you put one person laying on the bottom. someone lies on top of them. then someone else on top. and it piles high until you cant take it anymore lol. we got about 5 people piled up until we fell over but it was fun... :D

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Hmmm, in Annapolis our team had over 75 feet of networking cable, 4 xboxes, 16 xbox controllers, 4 copies of Halo 2, and 3 nights in a hotel. You do the math. Thank god we were all on the same floor. :ahh:

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Last year in Atlanta we had a four-on-four Halo tournament because the rooms had two TV's each. That was really fun. When we were done with that we just plugged in the DVD Adapter and watched some movies. I love Xbox.

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So far we have simply had many happy frolics at the hotel.

Traditionally in ATL, there is a large Floor Tag game at the Hyatt Regency. Just remember, if you plan to do large scale energy releasers like these, you need to have a good idea of which floors not to visit. Our group respects the floors that have team meetings on them and generally don't visit those floors, or floors with non-FIRST people or FIRST people who are sleeping.

<3 - Genia

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Yah, at one regional, we got back really late and some of the guys from one room were trying to contact my room. They called the wrong room, woke a non-FIRSTer up and lets just say they had a nice chat with security. The new thing this year for a lot of the guys on our team is playing poker.

One night in Atlanta me and my friend were just sitting there looking through the window. It was fairly late at night in downtown Atlanta Georgia. We saw one guy run a red light then 5 minutes later saw a guy do a U-turn and nearly got T-boned! ................ahhhhh good times.

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at Midwest i brought my x-box and me and a couple of my friends played gauntlet dark legacy on it. it was so fun.

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Some of us tried to beat the elevator from the 12th floor to the basement by taking the stairs. Just to find out the stairway came to a dead end at the basement.... :rolleyes: I'm not even trying that game at the Omni in ATL...That would make me REALLY dizzy!

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well our team has meetings for a while...but afterwards team plays stomps while there is still light out..x box and ps2...and just hang out and talk

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That is rather sketchy...although I myself am not a U-turn virgin! But c'mon who's bright idea was it to put the median in front of the entrance to Tim Horton's? I needed my coffee and we would have been late for the awards at GTR!

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WOW You got me my coffee with Shyra? Thanks so much LOL!!! I needed that caffeine so much LOL

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Twas no problem...I needed mine anyways. I can't seem to go a day without at least 2 double doubles. Unfortunately, I now think Shyra and some of the other girls are afraid to be in T-man (my car) with me behind the wheel! I did what needed to be done...if the situation came up again I wouldn't change a thing.

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Well... I'll tell you what not to do. We stayed at the Mariott Marquis(nationals) last year and some team below our floor decided they could reach a cable across the 50ft atrium. We were about 30-ish floors up. The team decides to tie a rock to the end of the cable and throw it across the atrium. Not only did they miss... but the rock came unattatched and fell 27-ish floors. I was watching with wide eyes. I have no idea where it landed but I had no intention of finding out. Nobody got hurt though, but I think they broke something. I wonder what people could possibly thinking when they do things like that. :confused:


GO 1403!!!

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In vegas, there were two teams in our hotel, along with a female soccer team. but anyways. we duct taped one of our presidents and had him hopping around the floors. then we attacked the other team's doors with duct tape and held them shut. we did make them posters saying we loved them and hoped there were no hard feelings because of the duct taping. lol. the posters had random food and candy on them. so yea, that was vegas for ya. in Phoenix, we had more fun on the bus and in the pool then in the hotel rooms. though there were some interesting convo's on the phones. lol.

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Although beating a 16 man Halo tournament or a texas hold em game is hard to beat, having a projector is pretty sweet. our team brought a PS2 and some things like Twisted Metal Black, Madden 2004, and a season of Family Guy episodes. Has anyone ever watched Family Guy on a 70 inch screen? wicked awesome :) . and if we get bored of that we either go to the hot tub or just hang out and listen to music and eat pizza

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Well back in the day when the National Competition was at Epcot our team stayed right in one of the Disney hotels. Now most Disney hotels have a really nice air conditioning system along with a ceiling fan. What we use to do was make a toilet paper chandalier.

Along with designing our own toilet paper chandalier, we encountered design disputes. It usually turned into a toilet paper fight. Believe me, trying to get rid of all that toilet paper before morning inspections was a challenge.

The Disney staff was baffled that we went through so much toilet paper in just a couple days.

Good TIMES!

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Now that sounds like a good time! Something I will deffinately do in the near future.

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In Vegas our fun was all of us in one room playing poker. Also going room to room just having fun, since we were the only team at our hotel. We would just randomly walk into someones room do some random things and leave.

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one thing we did at peachtree was duct tape our back-up human player and locked him in his room... imagine what our team said when we came in for the team meeting... lets just say that the rest of the team better watch out for me and a good roll of duct tape at nats

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The guys on our team had an x-box and a ps2, but I don't know how much they used them. Between using the gym at 2 am and playing tennis against the wall, I don't know how they managed enough sleep to keep them on their feet...

(Just for clarification, the tennis wall was the wall between team rooms; no non-FIRSTers were annoyed to the best of my knowledge.)

Other than that, we just watched movies.

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we also had a ps2 and going a little further back in gaming history, we also had sega dreamcast that one of our team members must have gotton for christams.... palying capcom vs. snk2 until 2 in the morning is not recomended, neither is playing metal gear solid 3, SRS, or need for speed underground

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Did anybody get curfews? If so at what time? Did you figure out any ways to convince your advisor not to give you curfews?


GO 1403!!!

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Besides human jenga, we also tend to play SSBM (-sighs and considers spelling it out for people who arent familiar with acronymns- Super Smash Bros. Melee) tournaments along with playing Halo and who could forget: DDR!!! (all teams are always welcome to join in on the festivites if theyre around!) we also tend to play RISK if we have the time... (the first time i played i lasted a grand total of 5 minutes... it was very disheartening) ... and if theres some sort of a store nearby (like a target or wal-mart) we usually take a field trip and get some movies to watch or in some cases... hair dye. :) and if theres a pool we'll have fun in there (even in freezing weather)... but whats even more fun than that, is trying to fit as many people into a hot tub as possible... those of you who crammed into the hottub at the Omni and got yelled at for flooding the first floor last year at Nationals know what i'm talking about... :D we are creative, easily amused, and try to make the most of our time while we're missing school and theres down time at the hotel. :)

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What about the WW dance :p


(That, for sure, sounds like hotel fun!)

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we prank called the boys in the other room and used "Microsoft Sam" to speak text that we typed. we made it say that they had bought adult entertainment channels and would have to pay the next day at the front desk. my friend recorded the whole thing, and then since our mentor was in room right next to us we heard one of the kids from the room go and explain to him...

the next morning heading to the competition, my mentor knew it was us and we showed him video and he was cracking up. he told us that we shoulda seen the looks on their faces, they totally fell for it. it was april fools ;) besides that we watched movies on laptop, went swimming, and just joked around.

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My team always had an 11:00-12:00 curfew.

If your advisors give you a curfew in the first place, you're most likely not going to be able to talk you way out of it.

I can't wait to be teamless with no curfew this year, though :D

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they said that we werent supposed to be out at 11 and they couldnt control what happened inside the rooms anyways. so i guess 11 was the curfew but i know that everybody was up past 11 ;)

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we had to be back in the room by 11:00, but we could stay up as long as we wanted

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Team 108 always has a room at our hotel that has people playing poker (anyone who wants to challange us come by the 108 pit and I'll let you know when we will be playing that night). We also like to just order pizza and chill out watching some matches from that day and then the seniors usually go hang out with our mentors while the young'ens go to sleep.

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My team is based at Grady high school, which is in downtown Atlanta and like a 10-minute drive from the Dome, so we will miss out on all of the hotel-festivities. Also, our regional (Peachtree) is so close that we just drive. Next year we are planning on going to mult. regionals, but have no idea which one(s). Any suggestions for an Atlanta-based team?

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Last year, in St. Louis, we had a number of football players on our team and a fairly deep pool at the hotel. The goal was to try to launch kids from the shallow end of the pool nearly straight upwards, high enough that they could touch the ceiling (we figured that it was about 15 feet above the surface of the water) before they landed in the deep end. I was terrible at it because I couldn't time my jumps correctly, but we had a couple of pretty light guys that were amazing jumpers, one of whom came within mere inches of touching the ceiling! This became more of a "hands-on" lesson in physics rather than mindless entertainment :D
Note: I definitely do not reccommend even attempting this if you have a small or shallow pool, it is, in retrospect, very dangerous. Even though we took great care (if you can believe it) and no one was hurt, just remember that caution doesn't justify reckless activity.

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At our hotel we had a team cookout thursday night where we hung out by the pool and threw each other into the really really cold pool...

Then we had a laser tag tournament, and beat up a stuffed racoon for fun. Ya, it was fun.

We had an 11 curfew, but if the sponsors liked you, and you weren't causing trouble, he didn't really care... plus he had 2 open heart surgeries over this summer and was always in bed well before curfew, so we didn't have much as far as enforcement went...

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In 2003 when we went to Annapolis, we all switched rooms to play Playstation or watch movies, and a bunch of kids brought their XBoxes and played Halo (still everyone's addiction back then).

This year at nats, the chat kids have been planning on having a DDR, Halo 2, and maybe some other games tournament, which should prove fun.

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Team 814 likes to take hotel entertainment in a low-tech kind of way...We play Cranium!!!
It's the best board game ever. :]

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after being in the final at buckeye, the whole team got on a bus and went to play laser tag. We played 3 matches, in the third match its was team play unlike the 2 earlier solo matches it was soo much fun. Like try shooting your advisor, you'll be suprised they are pretty good.

oh but that almost beat what we had in one of the hotel rooms for a couple of nights, we had a xbox, halo2, 4 controllers, and a projector! yeah it was awesome playing on a screen bigger than 8 of the hotel Tv's

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We played poker, ran around St. Louis and played in the shopping carts at Wall-mart, and made a lot a prank phone calls to other rooms. We also had a kid call 911 on accident, see he was reading the directions on the phone and it said dial 9 then 1 then the number. The problem was that he had a phone card and that added the last 1. As for curfews we did not have any. As long as we were on the bus in the morning to go to the arena and did not sleep there, the supervisors did not care.

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Well the usual for team 845 is a good ole' hotel wrestling which usually involve spastic leaps of faith across beds, dirty punches, and whipping with towels. We also had a poker chip set and played about two hours of poker! :) I remember last year at nationals, team 343 let me stay with them and they got a projector and had a huge projection of "Family Guy" on the entire wall. All we had to do was close the curtains, and we had a personal movie theather! :cool: 845 also crammed many people into a hottub at UCF and at Palmetto crammed 7 people onto one bed, and slept on it the whole nite!!! It was great, except for a few people who snored :( .
-Mike Griffith

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i still say a roll of duct tape is dangerous in my hands and has endless possibilties for funy or funny moments.... just make sure that whoever you duct tape will be found soon

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How many of you have tried breaking the rules and disturbing non-FIRSTers on a hotel on a military base?
I figure not many.
We hooked up and Ipod to the digtal input on a TV and played both the Ipod and the TV at max!!
Then we watched all 6 episodes of FLCL ( A Japanese mini-series ) and preank phone-called all our teams rooms. We were all running from room to room, it was soo funny to see a soldier in his pajamas curse us out!
Needless to say we kept quiet.
But then people start to fall asleep and things get quiet so you have to fix yourself a big mug of coffe, and buy lots of Red Bull.
By the way how many of you have stayed up all three days?
I have.

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Wow, so, so many hotel stories, yet so few that are FIRST-appropriate. The nuttiest we got with Halo 2 was 1 TV with 4-player multi-player, and one with 2-player Co-Op going on. So far (this year we've only stayed in only 1 hotel), nothing overly crazy happened. Last year we did end up having a party in my room after dinner on saturday in Atlanta. Most of my team was in there, plus a guy from 322 whose name escapes me...if you are from 322 and remember that, please reply.

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The best time I had was when one of my team members disappered into M5(the one the elivator dosent go to) at the omni last year. Hey it didnt say employies only :p

The story has moved into leagend on our team.

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In Annapolis this year we went to the mall for dinner one night and we found a toy store. So we bought like 6 real looking rubber snakes. We got back to the hotel and put the snakes in the girls room. We put one in the bath tube, one in the sink, one in the toilet, one in each bed, thats 5 and the final one we put in someones luggage. It was soo great, the look on their faces was priceless. Yea we got yelled at though. Because the mentors kinda start to wonder whats going on when there is a whole lot of yelling and screaming going on.
:D :D

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i've got a feeling that mighta been me from 322... i spent a quite of bit o' time with 66. but yea i hope my teachers dont read this... i really wasn't supposed to leave the hotel without a mentor last year. haha!

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In New Hampshire this year, a few people on our team thought it would be funny to duct tape the safety captain's cot shut. We used, I mean they used nearly half a roll of duct tape and completely sealed the bed shut. Now if they could have only did that one with the safety captain in the bed. But that would just be wrong...

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We trashed the hell out of our room. After our wrestling mathes "rumble", a kid "shovelhead" threw up all over the place. Some of my roommates closed the door in his face when he tried to get to the bathroom. I had quite a time explaining to the foreign hotel manager that a kid threw up.... I also had a roommate with a nasty foot odor problem, his toxic socks were a nice treat in the face.

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dude, at annapolis, we took the ice buckets and put soda and stuff in them, and walked around drinkin it all night
also, sum of us dyed our hair just for the fun of it
ah man, chinese food at like, 1 o clock at night
and that game.....ah....its like u put sumone in a sleeping bag and tackle them at random intervals, and it doesnt hurt cuz theyre in a sleeping bag
we also stole ppl's shoes and locked them in the safes....hahahaha.....that was awesome
i love it and nationals it shud be a blast
cant wait to see all of u there
~Angel

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4 poeple, 36 cans of MOuntain Dew, Water guns, and rading other rooms.


ohhh boy............it was hell of fun. WE finally end up building a mountain dew pyramid in teh morning. IT WAS FUN>

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All I can do is shake my head. :( It's sad to see how immature/mean/stupid/inconsiderate/inappropriate (etc.) some people can be.

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one of the kids on our team snuck his X-Box in and Halo 2... the mentors found him and got REALLY mad!

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Most of the time our team just sits in each others rooms and watches tv and talks.

Thursday and Friday night we have drive/pit/scouting meetings where we talk about other teams and how things have been going, those are usually an hour.
Then, if something is close, like a mall, or in atlanta Centenial Olympic Park (party in the park) is right across the street, we'll go there and play football or frisbee.

To be honest, i don't know how or why some of you guys are allowed to get away with some of the stuff you're written in this thread. We've been asked to return to hotels because of good behavior. It seems other teams do not have the same things. It's a disappointment, but not all things are perfect i suppose.

Dori-I want to play floor tag!!!

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I was debating whether to respond to this but here comes the Robomom talk...

It's ok to have fun at a hotel. It's not ok to disturb other guests and damage property. Any damage will be billed to your team/your school/your sponsor and you will be held responsible. As a team. If you want to trash someplace, have a party at your house.

Your actions reflect on your team/your school/your sponsors.
And guess what! The judges are everywhere! Even on Chief Delphi! Surprise!
There, I feel better.

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Agreed!
And I have to ask...what makes you think that your mentors,teachers, parents and other teams are not reading this? If they (mentors, judges, other teams) didn't know who you were then, they certainly do now. Goodbye ________ award.

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Yeah guys I have to say this thread was not a good idea.
Wasn't the stuff going on in this thread the reason this thread came into existence?
Just remember if a hotel equates FIRST with destrction then they will probably not host FIRST teams anymore. It's always fun til somebody gets hurt. Or sued.

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[quote=slickguy2007]Did anybody get curfews? If so at what time? Did you figure out any ways to convince your advisor not to give you curfews?


Our team's curfew sucked for regionals. We had to be in our rooms by 10:00. Although I don't see why since we hadn't gotten in trouble or anything. I am a rookie on my team this year, but some older team members said that last year the curfew was our team number, 11:08. I think that would be much more realistic for a bunch of high school students. I tried to talk mentors out of this year's curfew, but it didn't work. I don't know what it's going to be for nationals, but hopefully it's later than 10:00.
For our hotel fun....well....we pretty much just hung out with members of team 93 since they were at the same hotel as us for Indiana regionals. Although a lot of the time they were immersed in some videogames. But we did find a "secret" little cozy room with big comfy chairs and everything where we could all just sit and hang out. And a couple of guys on our team took a little trip to White Castle for snacks.

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Yeah our team pretty much has meetings when we get back from the competition, then most of us just sit in our rooms, watch tv and what not.
Every time we've gone to a hotel, there's been people that have been up to the early hours of the morning either running through the halls, or prank calling rooms. It's unfair to not only the FIRST people (especially the mentors, who are older and need the sleep), but more so the non-FIRST people that are staying at the hotel. And it's also not fair to the other teams that get a complaint from the manager of the hotel that had nothing to do with it. I think all of you who think you have free reign over the hotel should be a little more considerate of others next time.

And hey Buzz is staying at the same hotel, we should play ultimate frisbee, or football in the park. :)

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As I was reading through this thread yesterday and today, some of the things that teams have done and thought as “fun” are not really that fun at all. The way you act, in or out of FIRST arenas, will always reflect back upon your team. The same gracious professionalism that carries us through the pits and onto the playing field should and does not end at the competition arena door. Although it may seem like fun to prank call everyone, and run down the hallways, playing ding-dong-ditch, or even worse (duct-taping students, trashing hotel rooms, etc), these actions will reflect back upon on not only your team, but the entire FIRST program. Do we really want FIRST to be known as the rampaging bunch of hooligans?

I seriously doubt that other people staying in the hotel would welcome prank calls at all hours of the night. I don’t think hotel management likes ruined walls from where the duct taped freshman was ripped off. I really don't think that innocent bystanders or people walking through the hotel like becoming the victims of Super-Soaker attacks. Would you act this way while in the competitions? Would your grandmothers be proud if you told them about these incidents?

Although I know that being in a huge hotel is tempting, please, for the sake of FIRST, obey the rules. We do not need every hotel to ban us. There are plenty of fun things to do that don’t break the rules, or upset other people. I don’t feel as if it is my place to lecture you on what you can and can’t do in the hotel, but I will say to use good judgment. There is a right place and time for everything and the hotel certainly isn’t the right place for a lot of the previously mentioned “fun” times.

- Art Dutra

PS. Listen to the wise Brandon Martus. Think before you (re)act.

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we had a blast at our hotel at western michigan we were in the same hotelas team 27 who we faced in the finals but they had alittle to fun in the pool they had this ball and it hit the clock in the pool area and it hit the ground and shattered.

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for all the last trips (ptree twice, VCU nationals, and boilemraker) in my room, each person generally if lucky can get about a max of 5 hours of sleep per regional. It is fun but we always end up paying for it.

For fun we chill out in eachothers rooms, play football outside our bball. Anything really.
playfully make fun of the yankees with 2 train robotics and they make fun of our Braves.
TV is always on ESPN.
And man at Peachtree this year, it was at the same complex as our Basketball state championship tournament. it was so awesome. We basically left comptition after the day was over and went to the game. And we won the 5A state championship for boys in the state of GA. and beat Louis Williams.

If anyone wants to hang out at during Nationals. pm me. our team is always looking for other people to hang out with. We are at the Mariott Marquis

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I went to bed at early every night at our last regional, im the driver for the robot so i decided I wanted to be wide awake on the field. everybody else musta stayed 2-6 hours later then me :ahh: I still had tons of fun playing halo 2 and super smash brothers melee, but no disruptive things happened (that im aware of anyways) :]

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We all actually try and sleep in our room. But there is just something about being on a robotics trip that makes us all stay up.

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we just do massive halo parties, run amok in the hotel, stay up most of the night (i went into both phoenix and houston regionals with no sleep--not a problem for me) and watch lots of pirated movies. it also helps if you have a complex hotel though, that way you can wander and do what you want.

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we went outside to the parking lot in freezing weather (we're from s.fl, give us a break) and played hackey-sack between the...10 of us? it was interesting because i think we made fun of each other more than anything (only 2/10 of us could actually play) -- when we got inside it took me about 10 minutes to fully defrost. quite interesting. it's not the crazy stuff other people did on this thread but i don't think you have to necessarily be crazy to have a good time.

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Our team always has meetings at night after dinner and then we just hang out in our room. I played Catch Phrase with a few of my team members one night and if there is a hot tub and pool, we always try to go swimming and relax in the hot tub. We also play hacky-sack. It is so much fun to play hacky-sack with my team and we have some people who are really good at it!

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Each night, we watch horror movies. We sometimes stay up sooooooo late. I don't usually stay up, I just wait until my sleeping pills start to work. I have to take sleeping pills because I have to get some S L E E P! Well the last night we stayed, I overslept and I walked out into the hotel halway with bedhead and everyone just looked and laughed...yeah, that was a long day...

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...and in regards to Curfews we usually have a curfew between 10 and 11pm, where Mrs. P walks around and does room checks to make sure no one is where they shouldn't be. we're more than welcome to stay up past curfew, but we've got to stay in our rooms. generally though, by that time of night on Friday and Saturday, we're exhausted and we end up getting mad at Mrs. P for waking us up for room checks. :p

oh, how could i have forgotten to mention this!!!!!! -shame on me- when we went to New York last year, we got boxing gloves, and there were several little matches between people... it was quite amusing to see students vs. mentors in a "clean" boxing match... i think we even brought them to atlanta last year too, but i dont really rememember them so much as i remember that we had two of our students bring their fencing gear to the Omni! they actually fenced in the lobby, and the security guards came around and didnt even say anything, they were enjoying watching the boys spar as much as we were! :) (we actually brought a pair of bokken too... but unless you know what you're doing those have alittle more liability attached to them so we didnt really use them that often... but in one of the hallways in the Omni was where i was first taught how to fence! good thing fencing is a linear sport, or else theres no way we would have had enough room...) Hotel security didnt seem to mind, which is good, and no one got hurt, which is even better! :)

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welllll on team spam we do have a 11:00 closed door curfew, but that doesnt stop us from having fun in the room eg..
Also, we have HALO and DDR along with our infamous STOMP ( the game at the Palmetto Team social if u were woundering what we were doing)
After the team meetings we are let loose to do pretty much what ever untill 11. so usually the LAN cables are duct taped down between rooms, and the wifi networks go up... :)

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Yeah, we kinda had a curfew...well, the girls anyways cause our chaperone wanted us back in our own hotel room at a certain time..usually not past midnight, so we would just stay up in our room. Hotel was still fun though, would usually spend time in the boys hotel room cause there was game cube and ps2. Would play lots of SSBM, haha...and just hang out and stuff. Yep.

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The guys on my team will hook up 4 xbox's and play some 16 person halo 2!!!
The girls............ well I'm not really sure. I'm usually busy with halo!!!

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being very near to times square (maybe 100 yards lol), we went and bought a bunch of nerf guns from the huge toys r us.... too much fun lol

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projectors are so amazing

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Projectors are even more amazing when u play DDR with them lol yay for wasting time in AFJROTC

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The biggest thing was this year for us was at the peachtree regional. This didn't really happen in the hotel, but think what happened in the hotel after these events... Our basketball team (Wheeler High School) had just made it to the semi-finals by defeating number 6 in the nation South Gwinett 84- 80. We knew we would win now, they were the team to beat. After working on the robot all day thursday most of us went to the semi-final game. Blowout 78- 50. On to the state championship. In the state championship on friday night we defeated Norcross 63- 47 (i believe #11 in the nation). The thing about our school is that we are considered the rowdiest fans in the state. Even though it was far away we turned out as many fans as the teams from near the place. On thursday because the game was early we were given an early release day (of course we were at robotics, but for the rest of the school). This capped off a tremendous season for our team. Making things even better was that the next day we won chairman's award at the regional for the second year in a row. Other events we've had are a few wrestling matches and of course some great pranks, plus the typical robotics halo tournaments with a few xboxes in multiple rooms hooked together (im not personally as into that, but many peaople really seem to enjoy it).

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2 words, adhoc starcraft

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I bet your next door neighbors loved you for that one :rolleyes:

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We had 3 xbox hooked up on 3 tv's, it was HOT!!!!!!

But of course there is always the potential lan party. I'll cream anyone in CSS :)

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little plastic parachute men seem to be entertaining enough for us .. lol

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we did a ps2 lan party.. laptop lan parties.. POOL! GO HOLIDAY INN! .. and.. . we watched dvds in my room on my ps2 :D

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That reminds me, I wonder if our hotel will have a pool? That would be awesome. :cool:

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http://www.1sthotels.com/northameric...adowntown.html

PS. Thanks Eugenia for making your Hotel List!

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So Nationals are over what did you do in the Hotel. We had a conjoined room with some other guys on our team, so we just watched movies and talked about competition.

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u should come to the Lone Star Regional :)

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Our team played 4 on 4 Halo 2 and played super smash brother mele.

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Hehehe...

My own team (334) was housed with... two or three other teams, I think. On the first night, Natalie and I did not sleep, ran around like maniacs, then went to the hotel room of one of the canadian teams and painted 'pwned by 334' on their president's face.

The third night we had pool fun and then all the boys fell asleep in the girls' room, and when they wake up, left one of their members in the room, which led to a wierd wake-up.

Same for the fourth night.

Brought an X-box, but there was some odd thing on the back of the TV's that prevented the plugging in of the cables. >_<

A pity there weren't more teams in our hotel.

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CAN YOU SAY PRANKS;) ;)
WE ALSO HAD A X-BOX WITH A A GOOD CONTROLLER ONE WHERE THE SHOOT BUTTON STICKS

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awsome.. its good to know that other teams thought of laning :D


well our hotel at the holiday inn.. lets see... we had a wired/wireless router, and 6 labtops.. . and a ps2 and 2 xboxes laned.. we had wires down the hallways .. it was awsome and holiday inn was Really cool about it .. . .. even though at atlanta the internet sucked for reception we managed ok with my linksys router :D.. . . at toronto.. . can you say POOL>? indoor pools are a lot of fun after a hard day walking around .. nice and relaxing..

..we also played xbox ps2 and cs (lanned) on the bus ride there (19hour drive).. since our tvs had av inputs on the front :D . .. .. but we payed the price cuz we fried the inverter so we had NO power on the way home :(

and of course everyone watched anime and dvds on ps2s and xboxes. .... .

long live the ps2!!!! Down with xbox !

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During Nationals, me and a hand full of friends made a movie. We bought a bunch of cap guns and made a "poker" movie. Our team leaders didn't really like the idea of us jumping around in the team suburbans shooting at each other with cap guns :D but it was a ton of fun.

I think we gave one of the cleaning ladies a heart attack when 2 of us busted out of an elevator with cap guns at the ready trying to "catch" an undercover cop :yikes:

We tried to get the hotel to let us "rob" them, but one of our team leaders put a quick stop to that :rolleyes:

Thats what team 447 did to keep themselves entertained in the hotels!

Anyones else make movies while on FIRST trips?

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Late one night we took a Vacumn Cleaner from one of the cleaning Carts and well, put it in one of the glass elevators that look down on a cafe area over at the Hilton. Then we all sat down where we could see it and video taped people's reactions when they walked in on the elevator and saw a vacumn cleaner.

Some of them were great, the looks people gave us were just classic. One guy who when it opened looked really suprised and was like scared, so he jumped out of the elevator and pushed the button again, low and behold it opens up again, he still scared and in shock hops in the elevator and gets as far away from it as possible.

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My Team... :( Team 1503 Niagara Falls..

Liz drew it on Andy (our president's face) while he was sleeping...

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It's really sad to see how some people behave when they are in their hotel rooms.

Being an alumni, I myself have done some activities that seemed funny at the time but in retrospect are nothing to be proud of.

Last year at Annapolis my roommates and I were accused of having a "lamp fight" yes you read that right. I don't know how that rumor got started but when my advisor walked in the room to see it in pristine condition all worries were laid to rest.

I was always too busy talking with friends or planning for the competition to do anything remarkably stupid, but I did have fun. THe pool was great or I had my laptop and watched movies.

As for the curfew, my team always had a meeting around 11ish where we needed to be in the hotel. We didn't have to be in our room then, but we DID have to stay in the hotel. As long as the advisor and the hotel management didn't hear about it, then it was ok.

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Heh. I was there, dunno if you remember. With launching the flying hovering thingy out the window to see if it would fly? It hit the car... -winces-

Bad systemetric! Bad! :D