Re: Most embarrassing thing to happen to you at a FIRST event?
Not my embarrassing moment, but my son's during an off-season event a few years ago.
He was the driver and captain of the team at the time, (he's in his third year of college studying electrical engineering now, and he still brings this up)
It was one of those off-season events where teams bring more than one robot and have rookie teams (or non-official teams just starting out) drive the spare robots at the event for exposure, experience and practice.
One experienced team brought a spare robot that was just a driving chassis and bumpers, it didn't do anything else. The numbers they stuck on it was a mix of the experienced team's numbers, so if the experienced team number was (just for example): "1234", the spare robot had a number like "1324".
A rookie team just starting out was driving "1324" during the competition doing the best they could, but was seeded last.
When my son was picking the alliance for finals, he wanted to pick "1234" but picked "1324" instead, and realized his mistake when picking was done.. we held our own for a while, but I don't think we got past quarter finals.
In his defense, alliance picking started at lunch time, and the rest of the team went to get lunch, so he had no help with picking, and he was picking on the fly.
He made the best of it, he still had fun at the event, but like I said, he still brings up the "Team Brick" debacle.
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2010 - GSR: Excellence in Website Design
2011 - GSR: Motorola Quality Award
2012 - Mainely Spirit: Spirit Award, Human Player Award- GSR: Gracious Professionalism Award, Quarterfinalist- Beantown Blitz: Finalist
2013 - Mainely Spirit: Sportsmanship Award- GSR: Semifinalist, Woodie Flowers Award- PTR: Semifinalist- Beantown Blitz: Semifinalist
2014 - GSD: Spirit Award, 5th seed, Semi Finalists- PTD: 2nd seed, Finalists
2015 - Safety Animation 1st Place Award, PTD: Excellence in Engineering Award, 8th seed, Finalists, UNHD: Spirit Award, 9th seed, 6th seed Finalist Alliance Captain; Event Winner
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