[Kims Robot]

OHHH and I almost forgot my number one pet peeve!! While I love that they got some great speakers, some big important people that will get FIRST recognized, I was absolutely embarrassed at ALL of the people that kept saying "lets make this the greatest nation!" I was HORRIFIED!! This is an international competition... its not NATIONALS anymore... I was thoroughly embarrassed to be from the US with them saying things like that in front of an international audience... they even had all of the flags up there to remind everyone! What about Canada, Brazil, Israel, Germany, etc??? The list goes on!!! Shouldn't we be promoting cooperation over US Supremacy?!?! Do they not tell the speakers this is an international audience? Do they not know countries from all around the world can be watching this??? SOMEONE Please fix this!! Year after Year this happens, and every year it gets more prominent. If they want to do a different international competition do that... but dint invite all of these teams to travel thousands of miles to hear the US ROCKS speeches!!

*gets off soapbox*

I thought it was my fault that my team kept calling it Nationals... with them being a rookie team, and me having been in it since 96, I figured I had rubbed off on them, but now I realize that even the event organizers, people on CD, no-one (not just me) can get it right... lets give these other countries the respect and recognition that they deserve.