This is my first and unfortunately last year with the FIRST program. I was vaguely informed about the competition last year from a friend on team 401. From all that I could tell it sounded like an absolute snooze fest (What do you mean you make 130 pound robots, and they don't rip each other to peices?). You see battle bots was more my thing then. I guess your wondering why I joined a team then, well it was because I was told by my mother that if I wanted to build a battlebot I must give FIRST a try first (haha very punny i know). I was really surprised, once the season got rolling, at how fun it was to build and design a robot as a team. I also love the whole "game" that is redesigned every year. I have only been to one regional so far and the excitement was overwhelming definately not a snooze fest haha. I can't wait for nationals our bus leaves in 4 hours and I have to pack lol. Well anyway I'm off of the whole battlebots thing now and I am FIRST all the way of course it also helped my view point change as there is quite a bit of contact in this years game
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Mostly though I am really thankful of all the brilliant people that I have had the privelage of working with this season.
Doug