[Billfred]

Well, now we know what we're dealing with...I think we were kinda shock and awed when we rolled into Palmetto. I mean, we rolled up with the two kit totes, maybe a box of other miscellanea, and we brought in a little red wagon on Friday.

But we've got nearly everyone coming back this year (I think we lost maybe three folks to graduation, maybe some more), and we now know what we're doing--

STEP ONE: Build everything legal. (We had an issue with a cylinder at Palmetto, so it became a really expensive structural member.)
STEP TWO: Build everything tough. (Our chassis was bombproof, but our arm was on the flimsy side.)
STEP THREE: Take whatever our first impressions were about the game and run the opposite. (We wrote off hanging from the bar as an insignificant amount of points.)
STEP FOUR: Meet a bit more often, especially around the last two weeks. (We were at two hours one night a week plus all Saturday for the entire build, save the two days FIRST spotted everyone. So we didn't have much time to practice.)
STEP FIVE: Dance like freaking lunatics at competitions. (Our maroon shirts blended in perfectly with the seats at the Colonial Center, so it didn't help we were sitting for nearly all of the competition.)