Favorite part of regionals?

I love the variety of robots. Seeing every team's genius engineering, and the exchanging of "We should have done that!", and "You know, I think we'd make a pretty good alliance!". I love all of the excitement, and how all possible opponents are willing to help you whenever you need it. Those are just a few of the things I love about regionals.

[Steven Donow]

My favorite part, besides the fun atmosphere, is meeting people from other teams and, like above posters have said, having that one thing in common of being involved with FIRST. Along with that comes just talking about in general how your team operates in comparison to how the other team operates.

[bam-bam]

The alliance selection - you can never forget that begging to karma to getting picked (and those rare moments involving those who forgot to go to the bathroom)

[Carolyn_Grace]

The people. FIRSTers are some of the best people in the world. Over the past year I've met hundreds of new people and made so many new friends. When I go to competitions, my favorite part is meeting up with them and catching up. Sometimes it's just a quick hug or wave as we're headed in two different directions with our teams, and sometimes it's sitting next to each other in the stands, watching matches together and analyzing the game. Always it's a joy to see familiar faces. And so much more fun to compete with and against teams when you are friends with people on those teams. The more people you know and are friends with in FIRST, the more your focus becomes competing with yourself.

[O'Sancheski]

The best part is probably going around to everyones pit and asking the drive teams about their robot. Also, it is cool to see the people that you talk to on CD in person.

[1086VEX]

the part where you decide to change all the motors on your drive train and elevator in the 30 minuets before your first match. nothin like a little pressure to start a Saturday.

[CuteQueenPika]

Originally Posted by bam-bam

The alliance selection - you can never forget that begging to karma to getting picked (and those rare moments involving those who forgot to go to the bathroom)

haha yeah, luckily for me I've never experienced the last part of that! but totally, the alliance selection is the most gut-wrenching part of competition... also I'm glad I'm not the only one who begs karma for forgiveness just this one time, please, so we can get chosen and go on to the finals xD

[ttldomination]

I think I'm going to say the most "duh" answer, but I love the competition. Granted FIRST isn't all about winning, but something about winning a close match or winning a match that we shouldn't have won gets to me.

I also enjoy talking about specific designs and learning how some teams tackled a design challenge. For my 5 year FIRST history, I have yet to show to a competition and not be surprised by some of the presented solutions.

- Sunny

[Koko Ed]

My favorite part of the regionals is Saturday afternoon elims.
My least favorite part is the Thursday drudgery that has to be endured for the sake of Saturday,