[Garth1388]

I was stressed at first because I thought that if something went wrong it would be blamed on me, but our first practice match I got 3 penalties and flipped over. And nobody yelled at me too much, so it took away alot of the stress.

I did get a little nervous right before (there's nothing like looking through that lexan with your steering wheel and throttle in hand), but during comp we decided to abandon our arm entirely because it wasn't working correctly so I was told to drive "defensively", which I took to mean ram the crap out of the other bots. After that first hit I didn't feel nervous at all untill about 5 mins before the next round.

One thing that I did to help relieve stress is carry my drumsticks around with me, and just spin them and hit em on anything I could. VERY relaxing.