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Unread 17-04-2003, 12:34
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Re: Haha

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Originally posted by Andy Grady
The worst thing was when you spent a good 3 or 4 hours on friday night trying to calculate what the bracket was going to be for the next day. Then when you arrived at the competition, you found out that you were off by one seed...and your WHOLE bracket was trash!!! Ahhhh the good ol' days!
Andy, I remember that feeling oh so well. '98 was my first year in FIRST, so I was still ridiculously eager. Friday night of Nationals (It was still called nationals back then, even though I was on the one and only Canadian team) I stayed up until 3am entering all the scores into an excel spreadsheet. Finally I got it all done, only to find out Saturday morning that about 3/4 of it was wrong. Despite my many errors, I still managed to correctly determine our first three opponents of the day. Was it worth it, probably not, but I'll never forget the arduous effort.

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Originally posted by Andy Grady
How about these...
...The robot crossing signs
I've got a picture of one these somewhere in a photo drawer. I'll try and get it scanned.
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