[118 Tech]

Kris, yes I agree that the shot to your leg was really brutal. I believe they were pulling that three-man launcher so far back that the next shot they tried broke it. That organized fight was pretty brutal. Jen took a shot that knocked the wind out of her. Lisa lost a contact. I remember a few engineers taking hard shots from our three-man launchers.

That ambush outside the EPCOT monorail station was in retaliation to when we were ambushed outside MGM the night we got there. It was Lucien, Fred, Jen, and Rob. When they saw us Fred ran to the bathroom to fill up his water gun. Josh, Ben, and I went back to the hotel pretty wet. After that we learned to not walk around the park unarmed.

The 2000 Engineer vs. Student waterfight was an all out war. Last year we had an agreement that if you walked by the pool you were looking to get wet, meaning that you were fair game to get thrown in. The year before that anyone was fair game. Ben was walking back to his room after getting dinner and was unfairly thrown in. Sha was dragged to the pool and thrown in with is cell phone in his pocket. Engineers and students were talking ice buckets full of water, knocking on team members doors then drenching not only them but carpet in the room. The students had an advantage because we had radios until Lucien tackled me down and took mine. When we ran out of water balloons we resorted to latex tubing. We had an over abundance of latex tubing because of that year’s robot. Most of the SPI budget was spent on latex tubing. We tied one end off and then jammed a ball point pen into the other. To fire these “water sausages” we would just remove the pen. To fill them Josh “MacGyver rigged” a Coke bottle cap, “RSVP” pen barrel, and plenty of duct tape into a nozzle we put on the sink. The engineers unscrewed the water hose from the toilet and used that to fill their balloons. The engineers would just be patrolling outside the rooms with huge water balloons. We had students in strategic points everywhere on the all star music grounds. Each of them had radios and when they saw an engineer we told everyone where they were to ambush them. That year was great. So again in my defense bringing into account the previous year my ambush was sort of mild. Still you did get me pretty well with that water bottle. Anyways its still all just good fun.