[EricLeifermann]

First event was the Motorola Midwest regional in 2002, my freshman year of high school. I was sick and I mean sick, I spent the better part of 3 hours one day lying on the floor in the pits staring at the ceiling trying not to vomit or pass out from my fever. One match stands out when I think back to that event. My team at the time, 93, had to face Beatty 71 (those of you who don't know their bot from that year look it up, it lived up to their name of BEAST.). The pit crew had spent the entire time from our previous match in the pits changing out the gears in our gearbox to get faster and try and beat 71 to the goals in the middle of the field. Needles to say 3 second into the match their was a huge collision with us(93), the middle goal, and 71. 71 ended up getting stuck on the center goal and was unable to move the rest of the match. The roar of the crowd when this happened is something I have yet to hear again since. It was the most fun I've ever had at an event, even better than the ones I've won and wasn't sick at.