[Taylor]

If any of the kids on our team bring a PSP or similar device off the bus and into the venue, I am not going to be a very happy camper. FIRST presents so many opportunities to meet people from all over (even as far away as San Juan, PR) with common interests, common experiences, and really cool robots to look at/watch. Tons of scouting, marketing, fun-having in general. If somebody would rather spend his/her time playing video games, then that person quite honestly just doesn't get it.
Even if the regional gets "boring" (which I still don't understand, but I guess when you pass that 20-year-mark your attention span increases by about 2 hours), the kids are on a college campus with all the excitement and trappings. At BMR, they could go on a guided tour of a proton accelerator, nuclear reactor, airport, lots of excessively cool stuff that I would have killed to be able to do when I was in HS. Plus, especially for high schoolers, college students are HOT!
To say I'd rather play video games than experience all this is a slap in the face to FIRST, to the staff and volunteers that planned and worked on the regional, to the host university, to other teams, to my own teammates, and to myself. I would be robbing myself of the experience of a lifetime.