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Re: When did FIRST click to you?

The "click" came to me in 3 moments:

1. When I was shown video from the previous season(2006) and getting to see how teams competed.

2. After having spent all of build season working on our robot and then going to UCF and the Florida Regional and getting my first taste of competition, all the other teams and their robots, and the competition feel in the stands.

3. Walking to the Georgia Dome and just seeing the hordes of teams from all over walking to the competition. Then actually walking into the stadium and seeing just the sheer size of it all, 5 FRC fields + the FTC/FLL fields and the thousands upon thousands of people; this especially dawned on me when we went to watch Einstein and filled up the top and bottom halfway around the stadium. The magnitude of the cheering before and during the match and then the absolute silence as it finished and every single person was waiting for the results. It was also so inspiring to go to the GWCC and see all the HoF booths and to see the history of some of the teams from around the Country(at the time). But then you enter the Hall and have 400 FRC robot pits from all over the World and you can walk up to each one of them and look at the wide diversity of designs and actually talk about them to the pits members and learn about how and why they did what they did.
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