Soooo.....

[Joe Matt]

So, it's 10 pm here at Houston, TX and I'm exhausted. If you are reading this, then you either don't care that I'm at Champs or you can read CD on the road. I'm at the Marriot Med Center, and I can tell you that we have 19, yes, 19 teams here!

Here's the system lowdown that has been set up.

This year there is a band you wear all three days. This band gets you transporation to and from Reliant. It's color coded which has a set of hotels set up for a color. Don't get it? The Med center hotels are blue. Others will be diff colors. Also on the band are four meal tickets.

I'll tell you more latter when I have more time and I'm not dying of sleep deprevation...

[IMDWalrus]

I'm at the Holdiay Inn Select. Our bands are neon green.

It would be nice to be sleeping now, but I'm just not tired.

[Powers]

im reading, and i do care that ur at nats, only reason i can post now is b/c i am sitting in a class wishing my team had qualified.

[Jonathan M.]

I care too.. But I'm sitting in class wishing that our team could have afforded it... Oh well.

[kristen]

SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It would have been nice to have been able to afford to go to nats.... oh well.

YAY for sparky!

[J Flex 188]

the set up sounds pretty reliable

any problems so far?

judging from my time.. it looks like the pits have been closed for about 20 mins now?

[Yan Wang]

I will be so amazed if 384 wins the nationals. And I will also be frustrated.

The robot is very consistent and the construction is well done, but it has an average drive train and an average autonomous mode (~ 4.5 seconds with 2-3 stacks knocked down). It does not stack and the arm on top doesn't do anything (per my observations in Chesapeake).

I don't understand why robots like 1114 and MOE don't win more. GO STACKERS!

And go other robots who, to use this quote purposefully, 'think outside of the box'.

[Cory]

Originally posted by J Flex 188
the set up sounds pretty reliable

any problems so far?

judging from my time.. it looks like the pits have been closed for about 20 mins now?

I was under the impression that the pits closed at 8PM. that would be around 35 minutes from now...

Cory

[J Flex 188]

lol.. one of the mentors on my team posted that it closed at 7 pm houston time..which is 8 toronto time.. and it says the same on the first site..

hmm.. i hope my timezones arent messing anything up.. lol

[Elyse Holguin]

71's in the radisson astrodome (ugh- i wish we were at hyatt or holiday inn or doubletree or somewhere else...) we have bright pink wristbands, and our driver aj had alll his meal thingys fall off.... so now he has to hope they don't check. blaaaahhh, i miss florida, these walks from the pits to the arena are sooooooooooo long!

[kristen]

Originally posted by goosefrom71
71's in the radisson astrodome (ugh- i wish we were at hyatt or holiday inn or doubletree or somewhere else...) we have bright pink wristbands, and our driver aj had alll his meal thingys fall off.... so now he has to hope they don't check. blaaaahhh, i miss florida, these walks from the pits to the arena are sooooooooooo long!

Why? What's so bad about the astrodome? Aren't there a lot of teams there?

Bright pink wristbands!! *gasp*


No one mind what Yan said. Sparky will r0ck

[Ryan Albright]

for all the people that at home do to no qualifying or not affording how is houston? How does it compare to Epcot ? what are the difference? how is the field layout ?

[sevisehda]

Well I'm not in Houstin but I can tell ya not having Nats in the proper time zone EST/EDT is casuing me a few headaches. Is houstin 1 or 2 hours difference from EDT?

[J Flex 188]

I believe Houston is one hour BEHIND EDT time

doo doo doo..posting in class

[Jonathan M.]

I was watching the web cast and man I am torn. I'm really happy that our Sister team Metal in Motion (343) is in First place for its devision Curie. But I feel bad for my other favorite teams that aren't faring so well. However I do have a few favs that are doing great. 342: 10th in Archemides, 16: 2nd in Curie, 108: 10th in Galileo. If I didn't mention your team it's probably because you're not in the top 15. But I still love you! (Especially 180 and for some reason 71 )