Anyone in FIRST feel like this?
 

I know when I was a small child and my parents took me to Disney World, that the nights before I couldn't sleep out of excitement. Now, maybe 10 years later, with kickoff approaching I find myself not being able to sleep again!!! I'm just too excited as I think most of us are!

So my question to CD is does anyone else feel like this? I want to hear stories about when you guys realized FIRST would change your life forever!!

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Usually I get really excited for things the night before. It's extremely annoying because I can't seem to fall asleep those nights either. Aside from that, all the other students who are on the team with me have all been excited and counting down till Saturday!

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My most sleepless night is the night after kickoff. My mind is swimming with possibilities and an incomplete understanding of the game. After sequestering myself Sunday with the manual, I usually calm myself down.

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I'm with Taylor, trying to get my mind to slow down long enough to get sleep Saturday night will be difficult.

I have always been able to get to sleep the night before Christmas, vacations, kickoff...... The quicker I get to sleep the quicker it arrives!

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Yes! i have the same feeling right now, haha, i probably wont be sleeping on time on this friday, and i also get the same feeling when we leave for competition.

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I can sleep. Just during the day I feel like a giddy 5 year old all the time. Usually hours before the kickoff webcast I'll be going really hyper until the webcast starts - then I get serious and stop moving until reveal.

That's when I use up an entire notebook to cram ideas into at ludicrous speed

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The night before kickoff is usually pretty bad. I try not to drink caffeine on that Friday, because I know that I'm already going to have problems going to bed.

Waking up Saturday morning is more interesting. If I don't wake up to my alarm, it means that I woke up an hour before and then can't get back to sleep, even if it's 4:30am. Saturday night isn't an issue for me at all. Even though my head is swimming, I'm usually pretty burned out from being so giddy all day, and I collapse pretty soon after hitting the pillow.

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I think the busiest time for ideas for our team is when all 5 occupants in the main vehicle are all talking at once and trying to put their $0.02 in.

"What if the robot hung from the tower and shot balls at the same time?"
reply: "No, I don't think that's allowed in the rules"

"Awww.....I thought the fish hint meant a water game :( "

^^epic fail (team 469 FTW)

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I have been having insomnia also. School is getting progressively harder to pay attention to, and DT designing up to 2:00 is probably not good, but its better than laying in bed wide awake. :p

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It's weird. I usually can't sleep early the Friday night before Kick-Off, and find myself heading to bed around 3am, yet somehow still waking up at 7am and feeling as if I had the best sleep of my life. The same happens for every day of the regionals, too.

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For me, it's the night before competition.

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Yes, every year I try sleep and unable to. So many ideas running through my mind, when I do fall a sleep. I dream of competitions in my sleep that are related to the game Hints. Sometimes after seeing the new game, I dream how it is played with team. Most of the time I'm spot on. So yeah, over excitement is normal, I call it happy panic attacks.

-Antron-

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I remember when I was younger and I went to Disney World for FIRST Nationals. 2 Days 20 hours to go!

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As an Orlando resident I go to Disney World somewhat frequently, in fact I went twice during the winter break. Disney's capacity to inspire is pretty awesome, but is hardly anything when compared to FIRST. Of course build season is far from a vacation! Regardless I am extremely excited for kickoff, more so than for any trip to Disney World.

It hasn't messed with my sleeping schedule yet, but thoughts of robots have been invading my dreams. :)

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2 days 19 hours 4 minutes 46 seconds away and i am already having a hard time falling asleep. Whenever it comes time for sleep I usually have to read through chief delphi a couple more times to make sure i did not miss a major break through on the game hint. I can catch up on sleep after St. Louis!

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I find it very hard to sleep the day before kickoff, but its even harder during the competition. At my first competition i didn't sleep until the bus ride home.

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I have had this feeling the past week. Its just the anticipation of a new season growing. Its not the game, or the kickoff, but just that a new season is only 2 days, 17 hours and 43 minutes and30 seconds away. As for Saturday, i usually have no problem, even though my head is full of everything game-related and my copy of the manual is never very far away.

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That tends to happen with me too. Unfortunately, it happens most when I have to be awake at 4am and at the school at 5:30am, or something like that.

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I'm with Taylor and Sam. I go to try to sleep and I get an idea and I get up to write down or maybe build a small prototype out of household stuff. I get very little sleep right after kickoff. The night before kickoff I'm usually fine and I sleep a lot because I know for the next 6 weeks my 2nd home is a metal shop.

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But living in a shop is so comfortable......and i mean who needs sleep? The competition nights are weird because im tired (from all the fun and dancing) but its hard to sleep with excitement for the next day. This year we are headed to FLR and Buckeye!!!

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I did not have the same feeling last year (as I really did not know what to expect), but this year I already have the feeling. Last year, I could not sleep at all the week of my team's regional, but I was so hyped on adrenaline at being there I really didn't notice.

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I take everything back on what I said in the previous post. I have not been sleeping for the past 5 weeks until 12 to 1 am because of logging on to CD and looking stuff up. I can safely say that I am stoked for the 2011 competition.

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Stoked, excited, pumped. All great words! And yeah, i didnt really have the feeling my first year because I didn't know what was about to hit me. Know im pumped for a new season!

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I had issues sleeping last year, it was exactly in the past like Chirstmas was for me.

However having a Movie Night at school with the team helps our, since we know were mostly not going to sleep.

I just always feel sorry for those on our team who come to Movie night, and then have to wake up early and make the Journey up to NH in time for Kick-off

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The time the first game hint is out until saturday. On chiefdelphi all day now...

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well for me.... i cant sleep the night before kickoff because it just the excitement i guess.. so it like you want to know what the game gonna be about :D :)

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I have been doing the Suffield Scrimmage Week "0" since winter 2003. I still end up getting only about 4-5 hours sleep the Thurs night prior to setup, then 3-4 hours Friday night after setup.
This is my 3rd year volunteering the Hartford Regional & only get about 5 hrs sleep each night, starting Tues night (I do setup, FTAA & takedown) until Sat night. Let me tell you, Sunday IS a total rest day.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that everybody I know gets excited & looses sleep the night before. But I love it.

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see.....can't sleep to save my life