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I really like the renting hotel idea. The best thing about regionals in my mind was meeting all of the new people at night, in the pool or around the hotel. In Houston, out pool was broken (freezing!), and they had nowhere else for us to go. What did we do? We played wiffle ball in the parking lot and we hung out at Big Lots. That's right, a majority of my time outside of competition in Houston was spent in and around Big Lots. There was nowhere to go to meet new people. We met one team that challenged us to a wiffle ball game (we won, of course!), and that's it. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Astrodome, which had no other hotels near it. I'd like to see a group of hotels within walking distance of each other, if possible. FIRST could either rent the hotels, or say stay at these hotels. I have some friends from regionals that I'd like to hang out with, and it would be nice to be able to do that during the extended time we spend at nationals.
Let's just hope we qualify! With Jordan and I at the sticks, it shouldn't be a problem!
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