Archi-medes!
 

Well they're finally here...let's show everyone what Archimedes has!

Let the discussion begin!

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But FIRST... I want an archemedes userbar! :]

Does anyone know where they're hiding?

Looks like a great group of robots we have here... even a familiar face from eleminations alliances we've been in earlier this year... hello again 2048! :D

And we'll have the pleasure of hearing the famous OINK OINK BOOM!!! from 1908... We've got some hawiians... Canadians... Alooooha, eh? ;)

I'm surprised to see we even have a good number of fellow IndianaFIRST teams.

Can't wait to see you all there! GO TEAMS!!!

-q

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1124 is excited to be in Archimedes! Looks like we'll be competing with some very good teams.

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I'm going to call it right now. Archimedes is taking Einstein. Everyone else is going to be too focused on Galileo to notice the great alliance coming out of here....who's with me?

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AYE! :D

-q

p.s.... where's the userbars? :confused:

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BOOMSKIES!!!!!!

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Old ones are here. There will probably be some new 08 ones soon.

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222 is looking forward to Archimedes!:cool:

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1598 is excited to be in Archi-medes !!!!

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And... guess who's back this year? They may have moved from Newton to Archimedes, but the sea of maroon hasn't been broken up: 177, 190, and 987 are all in Archimedes together.

1024, one of the two teams to take three regional wins this year, is also joining us in Archimedes.

236, six-time Regional Chairman's Award Winner, who may just take the cake for the National Chairman's Award this year, will also be in Archimedes.

1902 was on Einstein last year... will they be one of the teams representing Archimedes on Einstein this year?

Team 116 was awarded a long overdue Chairman's Award this year at the last regional event of the season- perhaps they'll represent Archimedes with the National Chairman's Award this year?

And how could we forget 71; they've made a place for themselves in FIRST, and I'm sure they will on Archimedes.

Team 27 has also brought a lot of attention to themselves with some of their crazy Overdrive moves, and I'm sure they'll bring a lot of fun to Archimedes.

Another notable team of the season is 555, who will also be joining us on Archimedes.

We've also got team 11 to keep us company on Archimedes; they've shown off their expert performance starting at week 1 in New Jersey.

Who thinks that Archimedes is in for the win?

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Glad to be out of Newton for a change.

Being 1727 in Newton division is just a weird omen.

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Whoever doesn't think that Acrhie is stacked this year is lying to themselves.

I can't wait.

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Who is our emcee/announcer?

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We were in Newton the past two years (the only two years we've gone), so we were kinda hoping for Newton just to continue the trend. But now that I see Archimedes... I think I like it more, anyway.

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That hasn't been decided yet (I don't think)

Last year it was the energetic Mark Leon, and the legendary Don Knight.

But Blair hasn't assigned divisions yet, because obviously the announcers/emcees want to be with their teams.

So as soon as we're assigned I'll let you know.

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It was a bad omen for us cause Newton died in 1727.

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So you can join us in Archimedes and we'll have a fun time not dying. (-:

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Heh, we never placed well in the past two years... with this omen lifted... who knows :D

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816 will be there with everyone partying it up. Should be some really good alliances and matches coming out of Archimedes this year. Archimedes will take Einstein.

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Archimedes looks excellent this year!!! We may not have all of the "amazing" teams (we do have some though like 71, 1124 and 1024) but we're still gonna put up one heck of a fight!! Lol see you in Atl

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:cool: I had been saying Newton was our lucky field... but it wasn't consistent. In 2006, we were seeded about halfway through the division, and weren't selected for eliminations. In 2007, we seeded 3rd, and were disqualified in the finals, losing to the eventual world champion alliance. Maybe Archimedes will be luckier? Although it's hard to say, with so many good teams.

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292 is excited to be with you all in Archi-medes this year... best of luck and Let the Matches begin! :cool:

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I spy 2 of the 3 PUFP teams in Archimedes, I forsee a lot of "Let's all go nuts! Robots Robots!" and "Boiler Up!" going on, along with the occasional OINK OINK BOOM, and Get 'em and all the other catch phrases, it's going to be great!

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me!!!

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where are the divisions posted?
TheBlueAlliance.com???

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It will surely be LOUD!!! Cant wait

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Maybe we can cook up... some ÜberBacon!

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Kyle is correct! And we were one number away from getting all three Purdue teams in the same division, that would've been great.

We'll be sure to bring our speed and agility to the field. See you all in Atlanta.

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Ah looks like some great teams in our division!

I'm excited for my personal favorite team (outside of my own), Exploding Bacon!
I loved cheering with you guys last year! OINK OINK BOOM!

I'm excited for the event! Only one more week!

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I am looking foward to working with 1727 and 1902. I think that the Elims in Archimedes will be very exciting.

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Hello from Israel!
Team 1690 - The Answer wishes the best of luck to all the teams! may we all have a great competition!! :)

BTW 1577 are also from Israel.

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Team 201 is extremely excited to be in Archimedes this year! We were in Galileo two years ago and in Newton three years ago, so we've been around. I look at the list and I see an extremely tough division. I'm personally happy that we get to 177 again, with whom we won Galileo two years ago.

Good luck to all of Archimedes! One more week and then we show them all what we can do! ARCHI-MEDES!

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Always Archimedes! As soon as we saw the listing, ARCHI- MEDES!. Glad to see our partners from 41 should be with us.

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Or maybe some Über-Kil-A-Bacon? :]

I'm interested to see all the auto/hybrid modes that are in our division... I already know a few of the robots in our division have really fun to watch auto modes, and I'm sure there's more teams cooking up new stuff too. Can't wait! :D

Also, I'm looking forward to what looking forward does for the championship. Will he do individual division predictions AND all the what-ifs for the Einstein eliminations?

-q

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I want George as Game Announcer and Mark as MC. That would be pretty awesome. Me and Dustin were talking and realized it'd be awesome to be with 2024 just because we both have drive team members with Afros. Now if only we could find a third it would be amazing.

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Just found out a few minutes ago, we're very glad to be with you guys again as well.

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Even better. With 122 in the division, I'm willing to bet that the best MC in FIRST, Jeff Seaton, will be our MC.

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I totally forgot about that. But no matter who the MC lets make Archimedes the most spirtied field in the stadium. Let everyone hear our cheers and know that Archimedes is going to take it all. Don't forget to hop over to the facebook group.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gi...6416513&ref=mf

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I agree completely.
Lets make our division the loudest of all.

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I am loving this division!:D

Hell yea Danny, seeing as how all of these huge teams are in our division including MORT, we will so pwn anyone in cheering.

George, I'm with you on this one, Archie will take Einstein and do it with pride.

Or lose with pride:rolleyes:

So can't wait to compete with all these teams, this'll be my first Championship event, I know it will be awesome.

Q, Danny, And David Noll- So can't wait to work with you guys. This will be epic.

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It'll be a pleasure to work with you all as well, and Epic it will be... there's a lot of talent in our division... and as many of you know the performance of a robot goes far beyond numbers and statistics... as the wise Cortana says...

-q :D (is so ready for atlanta)

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Team 1261 pleased to make yall's acquitance...we'll see you guys there...

Archimedes...ALL THE WAY>>>

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Okay... before everyone lights up their flame throwers be advised I'm wearing nomex underwear and a fire suit. :D

I'm a little surprised to see some "powerhouse" teams that would normally be over on Einstein on Archimedes this year... maybe I just don't understand how FIRST assigns divisions but yeah... Archimedes seem stacked this year.

Should be a very very interesting weekend!
I have to agree... Einstein going down...
I wish Champs was THIS weekend... I'm going to be on pins a needles all week!

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Einstein is not a division... at least it doesn't really exist until the four divisions have run their course and arrived at their conclusions for who's cuisine reins supreme! *dramatic music...* (oh, sorry, my brain skipped to the Iron Chef track... I mean who's robot is the best :o )

Don't worry... Atlanta will get here soon enough, and before you know it, it'll be gone. :(

-q

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Iron Chef Archimedes!!! :p Too excited there Q?

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Thanks for the correction Q... thats what I get from missing all but the last day of things... that and trying to post when running only running on a few hrs sleep each night!

Oh well, sleep for wimps... - protronie said that
-p

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Who are we?? 93!!

Can't wait for the Championship Event - Archimedes should be an entertaining division to watch!!

One week and counting to load in...

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That also sounds pretty sweet. Quite possibly the coolest alliance on Archimedes?

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And 303 ;)

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Now that you say it that way... how awesome/hillarious would that be... iron-chef style robotics...

"Here we have the Iron Roboter, Kevin Watson and his sous-roboticists Woody Flowers and Dave Lavery... and the challenger... team xxxx!"

Alton Brown: "Now let's go to our chairman Dean Kamen for tonight's secret ingredient..."

Dean Kamen: "Tonight's secret ingredient is.... *dramatic music*... AndyMark Stackerboxes!!!! *unveils KOP tote full of stackerboxes*"

Alton: "Allright everyone, here it is, battle Stackerbox... you can see team xxxx gathering a heaping portion of stackerboxes and collecting four CIM motors from the Kit of Parts table..."

Okay, I'm done, waaaaay off topic. I'm going to go take a break for a while. :o

-q

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If you have any impressions that any other division is stronger than
ours think about this...

No one team makes a winning alliance. If you ask them
they like the carpet filled up on both sides of them on
the starting line.

All teams break somethiing sooner or later... If sooner
probably the better, if later well then nerves of steel prevail.

Finally when you are staring across the plexiglass of life
remember the first thing you see is your own reflection.
Of course the next thing you see is a robot screaming down
at you so quit looking at yourself and grab your OI panel!

go Archi-medes!

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Anyone want Anomaly in their name? Anomaly Bacon, The Anomaly Kil-az, Umm Uber Anomaly? Lol if only....

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lmao...clearly, this will be EPIC. "Alton, Kevin Watson is not using MPLab. This is unusual but let's see where he goes with this."

...robotics kids have too much time on their hands:D

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So I think that before Atlanta we should come up with a chant for all of the division to know. Besides the token name chant. Any ideas?

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Looks like 171 will be joining ya'll. Good luck.

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Looks like Archimedes will be a fun division this year...! It will be a change not being in newton this year, this would have been our fourth year in newton.

Cant wait to Atlanta!
See you all there.

-Keaton

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straight and chiseled 171 will be there to rock out with the rest of y'all.
along with 93, 269 the former Cheese Curd Herd (now Extreme Engineering) will be there to represent WISCONSIN.

FIRST Time Flying.
FIRST Time Championship
FIRST Time hopefully to meet oink oink boom!

Remember Thursday is unofficial retro t-shirt day.

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The ÜberAnomaly sounds good!

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Aloha Archimedes Teams,
We'll be coming in from Hawaii with a great robot and drive team, the Haka and yes, AJ and his fro! I'm sure he'll come up with a good cheer for us as he almost single-handedly won the spirit award for us in Honolulu. Look for our Kukui nut buttons too. Until our overnight flight next week....aloha!

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Actually that does sound pretty awsome if you think about it. I can't wait to be on the field with all of the awesome teams I've only seen in videos.

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Hey. Great to have a Hawaiian team with us for once. And yeah our operator was excited because there was someone in our division who also has an afro.

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PwnageAnomaly, maybe?

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As this is my teams first time at the championship, I am glad to see that we are the most competitive division. I told the students that it was time to compete with the big-dogs. I think we did a pretty good job at Detroit and can't wait to compete against some of you other dogs. Good luck to everyone. Please remember, WIN OR LOSE, the main thing is to have FUN.:)

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As fun as it is to say Archimedes is the best... if we're being honest and serious, ALL of the divisions are almost equal. There are a lot of really amazing teams at the Championship Event, and no matter what division you are in, you will be awed, inspired, humbled... and you will meet a lot of people who are both amazing, and just plain fun.

Welcome to Archimedes, and good luck to your team. I'm looking forward to some fun with you guys and everyone else at the Championship Event. (Woof!)

Edit: Now, I realize I misspoke. Archimedes is the most competitive field in that we win in a Chief Delphi posting contest- we have out-posted the other three divisions by an entire 22 posts in this thread!

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Archemedes, as of this post:

- Most entertaining division? :p
- Most talked about division.
- Only division piloting Iron Robot: Battle of the Master Engineers - A Race Against Rust. :D
- Most possible awesome alliance names (UberBacon, Uber-Kil-A-Bacon, Anomaly Kil-Az, AnomalyBacon, etc.)
- Can say Aloha-eh? :rolleyes:

I'm sure there's more, but thats what comes off the top of my head for right now. :]

-q

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So, is anyone else having a crazy awesome scouting party tonight? hehe, ours is tomorrow I think..at a Panera bread. lol, leave it to robotics kids to have a highly important team meeting at a place with lots and lots of food:D

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I'd love See Archimedes Embrace the Randomizer cheer that was started in Florida.

RANDOMIZER RANDOMIZER OY OY OY ( repeat 3x or until randomizer stops)

Sounds corny but its actually a lot of fun to cheer for the randomizer right before a match, makes scouting a bit more entertaining lol.

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What about Philly's "What do we want? TRACKBALLS! How do we want 'em? RANDOM!" cheer? ;)

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I'm in.:cool:

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I always prefer the Ran-dom-ize-er clap clap, clap clap clap!

Thats my preferred chant of choice

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Team 842 here! Glad to be in Archi-medes! Wish you all the best!

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I posted this on another thread, but I figured I'd post it here to see what kind of responses I get.

What 3 team alliance would you like to see represent Archimedes on Einstein?

A few guidelines to consider before posting.

1) Don't put your own team into the alliance. Share the love, and pick 3 other teams out there (there are enough of them to choose from :p )

2) Make them "realistic". What I mean is that as much as we would love to see a 987, 1024, 365 alliance, it's probably not going to happen because I doubt any of those three would make it to a second round pick. So based on what's likely to happen, make your choices.


Any thoughts?

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We wanted to play with you guys, but now hopefully we end up playing against eachother :D

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Who Highrolls MOE Bacon than the pan can handle?

987-365-1902 highrolls moe bacon than the pan can handle.


ARCHI-

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:)

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hahah an all fro alliance.. that would be pretty sick....

-the guy with the fro:D

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I know that every single division has some outstanding robots in them and all four division are going to be very competitive. However, every single person knows in the back of their head that the division they are in is going to be the best. That our way of getting pumped up for the competition within our division's. Every single division will have people saying they are the best and can justify that statement. Why??? ANSWER: Because we all are the best.:)

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WOO-HOO!!! I'm so exited for this division!!! This will be the most spirited section this year no contest. Looking forward to seeing yall on the field and in the pits.

...7 DAYS LEFT!!!!!!!!

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7 days!?!?!?!?! zomg!!!!! I leave in 5 days because I am driving. I can't wait to see everyone out on the field. And if everyone is as spirtied as they say, no doubt we will be the loudest division.

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987, 1024 and 1690. GO ISRAEL!

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BOOM!

I love bacon.....

Btw: Good luck to all teams

and that Randomizer cheer....its ftw : )

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with 2024 in this one its no contest. good luck to all of the teams!

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Hahahaha I need for this to happen, at least once, my life will then be complete.

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1902 is humbled to be with such a great group in Archimedes. Our rookie year we were selected by 233 and 33 in Archimedes. We lost to the team in finals that eventually went onto Einstein and was undefeated.

We were blessed to be in Einstein last year and look forward to trying again this year.

As an adult mentor it is so much fun to be with you high energy kids.

BTW the Randomizer Randomizer Oy Oy OY really caught on and had the announcer saying it.

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Extremely Desperate Westside Penguin Bacon.

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Team 401, The Hokies from Virginia Tech, are proud to be playing in Archimedes this year. Cannot wait to see you all there! We're coming with a decked out Maroon and Orange robot and, of course, HOKIE HAIR!!!

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Yes I too mourn the loss of not being on the same team. Now we have to play against you yet again. I don't know if you know, but we used to do a catapult, trebuchet competition where Highland and Hayden were the main entries for three years. It was held in Gilbert at Mother Natures Farm on Baseline.We finished 2nd to you three years in a row!!! I guess its our destiny...
Oh well, good luck and we hope to see you in the finals and maybe actually get the chance to maybe win for once. Thanks and take care!!

Oh hey, Hurry and sign up for NURC! We have 19 teams so far and room for only 24 total!!!
here are the teams so far
http://www.h2orobots.org/fallteams.htm

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Its good to see that the Maroon Alliance (190,177, 987) is potentially still together, we hope you guys preform well in Archimedes this year! We hope to be with you guys in a few matches this year.

-Keaton

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Is it just me or is Archimedes seemingly made of awesome?

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It's not just you. WooT.

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Nah it is not just you. I am pumped man. And you guys seem like you will be sure to make this my best Atlanta visit so far. Let's all have some fun and cheer for whoever represents Archimedes on Einstein.

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You know what would be absolutely awesome?

If everyone in Archimedes did a group hug... lol

Good luck to all Archimedes teams

Archimedes Alliance on Einstein FTW!!!!!!!!!

(oh yeah Qbranch? im still amazed by your teams ability to make it to 3 regionals and pwn at all of them)

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"WE WERE NOT PLAYING VOLLEYBALL WITH THE GIANT RED BALL!!!!!!!!"

We did in Tel Aviv!

Looking forward to playing with all the great teams of Archimedes!

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It's not just seemingly made of awesome- it IS made of awesome.

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A group hug would be totally awesome. But when we would we do it? I love how everyone who has posted on here has been so enthusiastic about the competition. I am pretty excited I have been thinking about it like non-stop since the divisions were released. I realized I am pretty excited to see teams we have been with before Moe, RA, Firebirds. I can also not wait to work with people I have never had the chance the to work with 1024, 1124, and 1902 come into mind but there are many other. See you all in a week. I am sure I will post on here again before than. Try to have this thread be the first to 100 replies.

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Im probably the most spirited Rookie on 816 and trust me Danny can tell you all that I am lol, Atlanta, I got to find somewhere to get the hairspray again. lol