[Grant Cox]

One of my really good friends made it to the national level repeatedly for electronics.. he was supposed to join our team, but again the scheduling conflict a few others have mentioned came up (he didn't really want to bother being on the team if he wasn't going to see the bot perform at the world championship). From what I've heard, the Skills national event is very similar to our Championship Event, in terms of intensity, cooperation/competition, and social value (meeting people from all over the place with similar interests).