My favorite part of the regionals, aside from watching the final rounds and barking at my teammates in the pit and on the field(
), was collecting all those snazzy buttons from different teams. I'd love to repeat the past 4 days a couple of times. Some of those teams had some very interesting ways of showing their school spirit too, like Triple Strange (1533) had that superhero guy with the blue tights and silver cape, and another team had a wizard guy and someone dressed like an alligator.
Well, although we were a rookie team this year, I kinda felt that we could've done a bit better. There were always little things that messed us up, especially in that second round when somehow the two guys that were putting the robot on the field forgot to put the balls in. I was already stressed and that was just about my breaking point. Then near the end of the day, my alliance got a 25 point penalty and that was it for me. I went outside and sat on that bridge nearly in tears for about an hour. But all in all, with the stress, frustration and me almost shoving a foot-long screwdriver down the captain's trachea
, I had a really great time, and Jillian's was beyond awesome. I've never seen anything like it. And I learned how to socialize! I've always been so bad at that. Hah.
By the way, thanks to the CircuitRunners for your help. Jeremy, if you're anywhere on CD and see this, Ms. Manuel says you rock