[StephLee]

Pittsburgh does have pretty good food, with about four or five different restaraunts in the food court. You could also pre-order what you wanted from each place, and you got a slip of paper saying what you ordered and that you already paid for it, which really helped make the lines move faster.

At Chesapeake, the food is pretty expensive (I remember paying $2.50 for a can of soda in 2005), but they do offer preordered boxed lunches. The boxed lunches honestly aren't that fantastic, but they're not bad and do have enough in there.

In Atlanta this year, our team typically ate at the CNN center or somewhere else outside of the venue. I only remember eating in the pits one day, and then myself and the rest of the drive team ate pizza from Papa John's that a mentor went and bought for us when time was running short.

Honestly, I'm a bad person to ask about this; at least one day out of each competition I'm too nervous to eat anything (usually Saturday) and one other day I'm probably too busy to eat. I guess that comes into it when you consider that if the food was more easily accessable or if we were allowed to bring food in, the team members who are busy the entire day would be more likely not to pass out from dehydration.