[Specialagentjim]

Originally posted by utishpenguin
mandy moore came last last season at teh championships... *nods* good stuff

I swear, I never saw 20,000 geeks move out of bleachers as fast as when they said "Musical Sensation, MANDy MOORE!"..

Suddenly, there were about 200 screaming obssesed fans at the stage, and 19,800 robotics kids bumrushing the gates of epcot. I gotta say though, the 10th year end of cermonies show was the best I'd ever seen. Thats the advantage of keeping it at disney, is the amazing show that's put on. When disney does something, they do it right, and it's amazing. Everything from green lasers (which actually lead to the delay of the show, and the apology from dean on his "This isn't what FIRST is about" music videos...I'm still laughing at that..heh...stutter, stutter) to flame throwers to doves. Its an amazing thing.

I'd definetly say disney. It made for a great environment, especially being as a Florida team, we were able to bring out entire team of nearly 80 kids. The great part was, not all of the 80 have a clue what the robots doing. About 20-30 are really useful at competition, with the others doing pre-comp work. The non-essential to competition kids could head out into the parks for an hour, and get back for a match all day long. It was really a great environment.

That and its only a 4 hour (3 if ya get our bus driver ) drive by bus for our team. Definetly a good thing, not to mention the meeting of all the other s. florida teams on the way there at reststops. The confused looks on the rest stop patrons as 3 teams converge at the same rest stop along the highway was entertainment enough for us!