Things to do on the way down to Atlanta?
 

I was just curious as to what some teams do on the way down to Atlanta. I know 2337 is planning on having a mini LAN party on their ~15 hour bus on the way down, along with much sleeping and listening to iPod. So, what do other teams do to pass the time?

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We have a lot of DS parties on the bus, and also watch tons of movies.

Along with that we play numerous card games, tons of verbal puzzles, and of course I will be playing with my iPad :D

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We watch movies and when our teacher picks a bad movie we mock it.

Also pictionary in the middle of the bus on a massive white board that is meant for putting up our schedule in the pits.

And my least favorite one is draw, with a sharpie, on the face of someone who has fallen asleep. I'm usually on the receiving end of this.

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Pictionary on the Bus sounds pretty sweet.

Zach add it to the list.

-Clinton-

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An insane amount of sugar!
A LOT of movies, gossip, card games, with few strategy discussions here and there! :D

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Our team takes a 3ish hour bus ride from the school to NYC, and then a flight to ATL, so we don't usually get to bored, doing all the shifting around while we travel on Wednesday. However, our team usually has some LANs going, as well as some strategy and scouting sessions to get us pumped up for the competition. Maybe a sing-along here and there as well :yikes: We don't usually play movies, because everyone is either doing their own thing, or is doing something in a small group, and we don't bring a huge group of people to Atlanta anyway. Plus, our total travel time is only about 6 or 7 hours, and a good portion of that is the time after the bus arrives and before the plane leaves, sitting in the terminal.

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The obvious answer is to find a way to stop any alliance with 469. :D

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Team 3256 will be on a flight to Atlanta, so we are hoping for those in-flight entertainment systems on the backs of the seats. Sadly, I recall my last flight to Atlanta had none. :(

...and we're flying the same airline.

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For those who enjoy watching movies on the way to Atlanta (or for anyone really)... Do you have any good movie suggestions?

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Our list so far:

Up
Wall-E
Artificial Intelligence
Blade Runner
Harry Potter (entire series, unfortunately= 18 hrs)

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Short Circuit is a classic roboflick

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Indiana Jones is always up there.

I also try and sleep because I know it's the last time I will for the next three days. xD

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NO di-sass-sem-bull! No dis-as-sem-bull!

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The most imporant thing to do on the way down to Atlanta: bathroom breaks!!!!:D

I'm all for bus rides to Atlanta, in fact, that's one of my favorite things about Competitions..

The Ride Down.
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I'm one for entertaining during bus rides, in fact I tend to play a few "pysch" tests with some of my kids to see what kind of person they are, anyways.

If you like pictionary, my advice is to look into Electronic Catch Phrase, it's like Taboo and Pictionary where you try to describe the word, a bit easier than Taboo, but still very fun.

I enjoy making fun, or Dubbing movies on the way down, that's always fun.
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Story: my first year on the team (Junior year '05-'06) our bus broke down in north Carolina on the way down to the Peachtree regional. some sensor had gone haywire and would think the bus is overheating and shut off the bus every 30 minutes or so, so we'd have to go 35mph for the last leg of the trip.

believe me it got on everyone's nerves, though we managed to not be at each others necks. Things we did included: making fun of "The Day After Tommorow." telling stories, and sleeping.

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Definitely going to start off with some sleep. Then, as the day wears on, we're going to be watching some movies I hope. Then at night or should i say probably after 7 pm we will kick off a massive rave party in the bus, much to the displeasure of our fellow teammates who are sleeping or doing other things :D .

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Don't forget the most important thing. SHAVING FLIPPY'S HEAD!

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Aww yeah...almost forgot about that one. If anyone sees a person in a 1918 shirt with their head shaved say "Nice hairdo, Tapeworm." and see how he responds ;) .

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15 hours? You need a better bus driver, or shorter breaks. Even mapquest says you can do it in 12.

You could always count Waffle House restaurants ... :p

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It is a bus, so that'll take it a little longer, and MapQuest/Google Maps doesn't account for traffic or changes in speed along the way, or breaks. So it should be around 15 hours by that time.

I'm so gonna do that! I can so see a great came coming out of counting Waffle Houses (and making fun of their close proximity to other Waffle Houses)

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My team is coming from Israel to New York. It is 12 hour flight. I will sleep most of the time because the flight is starting at 12:20 PM and we will land at 5 AM in the morning.More 3 hours at the air port and then we have a flight to Atlanta more 2 hours. Almost 24 hours it will take us to be in atlanta.

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a laptop with some good movies, a good book, iPod are always my top picks

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1676 always has a dance party :D we also watch movies, have Mario Kart races on our DS's (or some of us play our GameBoy Colors) or just chill and listen to our iPods and talk. we also have mandatory homework hours where we have to get some of our schoolwork done so we aren't pulling all-nighters on Sunday night before we go back to school :yikes:
the bus ride is always one of the best parts of the trips to different competitions, but we're going on a plane to Atlanta this year. no more 18 hour drives for us!

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Last year during our 5-hour flight to Dallas the students set up a LAN in the back of the airplane and had a LAN party. The flight attendants were bemused. I still haven't figured out how they powered the router.

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have you guys ever heard of A Thousand Blank white cards?

it's a no rules card game, everyone makes there own cards and plays them in the deck, deal out the deck to everyone playing, (have everyone make 3 or 4 to make a good hand size). then start playing cards on each other


that's the basis.

here's a link to understand more.http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4...nk-white-cards

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As someone who has made the trip from about where they are (I'm about an hour east of them) to Atlanta many, many times, it can about that long. I think the fastest we've ever made it was 11 hours, longest was about 17.

Games such as "I'm going on a trip" can be amusing, especially if you limit it to specific topics, such as team names. I'm also a personal fan on sleeping on the ride down, as that makes it go much faster. (If you're traveling though Ohio, this is when you should sleep! XD)

On that note, counting Awful Waffles works better the further south you are. :D

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I plan on reading a book, listening to music and reading fanfiction on my laptop.

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Apples to Apples! Just make sure you have a place to put judged cards (like a bag) and to not lose any. We spent a good two hours on the way to North Star (each way) playing.

If you watch movies, don't want movies that involve a lot of screaming. The sleepy people get annoyed (Jumanji comes to mind).

If you know any word games, those are fun. Especially rhyming-on-the-fly games.

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some of us are going UP to atlanta :P

The flight is usually about an hour from Orlando to Atlanta, i usually sleep or listen to music...

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Indeed - we wouldn't want you to start crying when you got anywhere near the vicinity of Columbus, now would we?

Remember..."The Vest" is Watching You.

One year we did "Story Time with the Engineers" right before bedtime - the engineers recorded themselves reading Green Eggs and Ham and other classics in a really dorky fashion and played it back on the DVD player.

And then there was the time someone put in an episode of the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. Someone almost lost their life at my hands at that one.

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One thing I had the students do to bother Koko Ed on our way down to Battle O' Baltimore is have them say each sign that you drive by. When I had them do it, we just entered a construction zone, my my was it fun! I also had them say the word cone every time we passed one as well. Ed was not happy.

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I can't wait until i see a bald Flippy, this is going to be great!!!:D

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Oh man, the route to Atlanta from Maryland is littered with Waffle Houses, er, uh, Waffles House..
Makes me wish we weren't flying down.

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I'm loving all these ideas. Sounds like 2337 has added Pictionary, Electronic Catchphrase, and Waffle House counting for the list of things to do on the way down to Nationals!

I know we created a list of action/inspirational movies to watch on the way down to Atlanta. I don't have the whole list, but I remember some of them.

National Treasure
Oceans 11
Oceans 12
Radio
Ink

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Bring a laptop with Portal. That way, when you say "The cake is a lie", your team won't give you odd looks.

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I wont be in ATL :( but we got stuck in two hours of traffic on the way to Dallas making the drive just under 14 hours (and I go on family summer vacations almost every year). I have plenty of experience :)

Some of our team on the way to Dallas got the "TWSS" Color Game started. Nothing like 14 hours of shouting "magenta". And I know this will sound terrible, but homework. I did all of mine on that bus. It a great time for reading too if people let you lol. Do trivia over each other to see how close you've all come as a team. Play games like "Big Booty" and "The King of France has lost his Pants". And I've always wanted to do this one, but i don't think many people would go for it. Have everyone be their favorite fictional character the entire trip. :D

My suggested movies are Fast and Furious, Accepted (one of our mentors brought it and had us watch it), Star Wars (preferably the original trilogy), Indiana Jones, Back to the Future I, II, and III, anything Harry Potter, anything Disney-Pixar, Transformers I and II, The Haunting in Connecticut, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Wayne's World I and II, Speed Racer, any Sing-a-Long and Get Smart.

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A wise trip manager once had use leave at midnight and we did a majority of the driving at night.

Uh...I don't know what to keep people interested for 15 hours on a bus. Movies that have been pre-selected by the majority. Rest Stops between movies. Games, scouting, talk about the slight probability that Curie won't take Worlds this year...uh...

Each team has their own interest callings, find your own and your team will be infinitely more fun.

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Ahhhh I love "Big Booty;" I learned it at camp a few years ago, and miss being able to play it! This game involving kings of France and lost pants sounds interesting. If it wouldn't be a problem, could we have a quick 2-minute explanation?

If the bus has those fold-down tables on the backs of the seats, playing a nice game of Egyptian Rat Screw is always fun. I played it with a friend for a few hours of the 10-hour bus ride back from Michigan Tech last summer. Just be sure not to break the tables from slapping, and don't wear rings while playing:P

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One person is selected as "The King/Queen of France" and everyone else who is playing numbers off. And the script goes:

King: "The King of France has lost his pants and suspects number (insert number here)!"
(selected number): "Who Sir? Me Sir?"
King: "Yes sir! You Sir!"
(selected number): "No Sir! Not I Sir!"
King: "Well then who Sir?"
(selected number): "Number (insert different number here) Sir!"
(new selected number): "Who Sir? Me Sir?"
and it keeps going. the out rules follow that of "Big Booty", except the "King" cant get out like "Big Booty" can. And the numbers shift too, like in "Big Booty". And this game is almost always played with pants on :D

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Team 2865 is flying this year. (Idaho to Georgia = not a drivable distance)
I will be marathoning anime with my best friend, a laptop, and two sets of head phones.

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Most of us just sit around and:
Eat
Sleep
Listen to music
Watch movies
DS party
Play cards
Play games on laptop
Talk about random stuff
Meet other people that are taking the train/plane with us across the country

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This is a good idea, because for some odd reason a majority of the other students on my team dont understand this. thanks for the idea.

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If you want a really interesting time, take all of your robot batteries on the bus. One year, a kid hooked them up to an inverter, letting us play his xbox 360 on a small lcd screen.

Small dance parties in the back also work well.

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I honestly think that movie is depressing... which results in me not wanting to watch it. What are some other people's opinions? For me, I honestly hope that our technological advancements never reach to the point of artificial life (but how do you define artificial life?)... but then again, Wright Brothers never thought we could cross the Atlantic Ocean in under 2 hours.

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You can always have a conga-line. We did it last year. :)

and yes, DS battles, homework, chat, listen to music, etc. all work for a 15 hour bus ride. I considered bringing a practice pad and a set of sticks.

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What's always fun to do is play a really long game of Green Glass Door or Air Crossword. I guarantee that those will keep you occupied for many hours :)

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I was going to suggest Green Glass Door, but a surprising people know what it is...it definitely kept my friends and I entertained for at least an hour or two last year on a 6 hour car ride.

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Some of us have to drive up to Altanta
It's alot longer than flying :rolleyes:

But it's a bus, and with 1902,2757, and a few other people, it should be fun.

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Well all my idea are gonna change now.... Because team 326 is going to party with 2337!!!

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That's definitely going to be the party bus! Wifi and power for everyone, plus a bunch of fun, spirited people. I'm jealous!

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I know!!! We just confirmed it this morning!! It ended up being a great deal for us!!!

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Didn't hear about this, but we're gonna ROCK dat bus!

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Are you volunteering Nicholas?

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Well for those bus riders going through the night, glow sticks are 25 for 25 at Party City. I may buy some for the bus ride lol

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Unfortunatly No, At first I had no clue when I would be gettign down there... I had to cut some deals so that I could ride down with the team... Plus I want to be able to show some of our younger kids some things... But what is your spot? I'll make sure to come see you!

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:ahh:
I may have to buy some for myself. While you all will be partying with your glowsticks on the way down/up to Atlanta, I'll have 25 of 'em hanging around my room while I constantly check CD-Spy for new posts that won't be happening because everyone will be travelling to Atlanta and not posting.

...assuming I can get to a Party City.

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For team 375, LAN party FTW:D

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Zebra, don't know what field yet. Bring your volunteer shirt, maybe they will let you be my stray shot diverter :-):)

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You just want me to get shot in the head again... My team itself will be on acrhmedies... So if you end up there... ill make sure there is a stray shot, coming your way..

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No one has knocked off the hat yet! But the trick is to take a full face shot and act like you were aware it was coming and it didn't really hurt!

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Sounds like something that happened to me twice!!

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Add the movie "The Italian Job" to the list. And like someone stated, Short Circuit.

How about a nice game of chess?

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Orville died in 1948, three months after the X-1 broke the sound barrier. Even before that, though, others had bounced around at speeds just below Mach 1 in fighter planes. That someone would break the sound barrier was just a question of when, not if (except for the minority that thought of the "sound barrier" as a real barrier).

Wilbur died in 1912 so you might be right about him, but there is no reason to think Orville -- a legitimate technology pioneer -- couldn't have foreseen supersonic air travel.