VCU 2002, the year our robot looked like a
motorized laundry basket Back then, when we were going to Nationals, only pit and flight went to the whole Regional competition, the rest of the team went down just on Saturday, so I didn't really get the full experience of a competition then. I wandered around a lot, taking pictures, looking at other bots, stopping to watch the matches only when our robot was competing. At one point, some of my team members found me to ask me if I could teach them how to do the Time Warp (how they guessed I knew it, I don't know) so I did some crazy hopping around for a bit then went back to wandering... Oh, and I smacked Griffen whenever I saw him. Griffen was a student on the team who had gotten hold of my boyfriend's cell phone two days before, which had my parent's telephone number on it, so Griffen phoned my mother and said (rather ominously) "Mrs. Foster, you have a wonderful daughter." and just hung up. Which freaked out my mother who tried to call me but couldn't get through and caused me two hours worth of apologizing (especially since I made the mistake of laughing when she told me what happened) once she did reach me... so yeah, my hand hurt because Griffen got swatted a lot!
All and all, it wasn't a bad competition, but to me they just get better and better every year.
Heidi