Kickoff vs Ship Poll

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by jonathan lall

I don't see how Kickoff can at all be construed as "stressful."

Just try looking at it from a different viewpoint - like that of the folks at FIRST. They have to get everything ready for the kick-off, finish packing the kits, ship out all the materials to the remote kick-off sites, complete the game design, publish the documentation, send out the field drawings, complete all the corporate agreements, confirm registration of all the teams, proofread the game rules for the 1435th time, purchase JVN's birthstone, coordinate the satellie connection for the broadcast, procure all the spare parts that will be needed, prepare to handle the inevitable questions from teams, and about 750 other things. From their standpoint, Kick-off is a masive stress point. Ship date is a walk in the woods in comparison.

(just a gentle reminder not to limit yourself to just one viewpoint - every problem can and should be examined from different angles)

-dave

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by dlavery

, purchase JVN's birthstone,

-dave

Is this a game hint?

[Jeff K.]

Originally Posted by Andrew

Is this a game hint?

I doubt it, there is nothing on it on the internet

I typed the whole phrase 'JVN Birthstone' into google and yahoo, nothing showed up, but this one old site that's for sale now, that was probably selling items for families and such. http://www.jvn.org/ochnl.asp?keywords=Family&t=p&chnl=1 is the site.

...but y does he state JVN birthstones?

[Paul H]

John V Neun's birthstone...he's a forum member, it's a joke.

Unless the game involves stones of some sort.....hmmmm

[Franchesca]

I see it two different ways:

1) Kick-Off: Simply because you know that you are about to start 6 weeks of an incredibly stressful time period. No more going home early (or attempting to), no more regular meal time, or bed time, or bath time for that matter. You know that you are going to have to work harder to maintain your grades. You know that you are going to spend all day at school or another vicinity with a bunch of stressed out, caffeine addicted teenagers. And you know for a fact that some where down this 6 weeks period you are going to loose it so bad ... you want to call it quits. So thinking about those things and trying to get as much sleep as I can possibly force my body to before Kick-Off definitely stresses me out.

2) Ship Date: Simply because I am scared that what happened last year to our team will happen again this year ... the guys were working until 3:00 in the morning to get this robot ready to be shipped ... and this year I will actually have to be there . And naturally it is a very stressful time because you are trying to tie up all the loose ends and make sure everything is in place and that you haven't left anything out and to try to breath in between. But at the same time, you know that its over so with a bit of nostalgia and a definite strong feeling of relief you await the best part of the season ... the competitions. That's the true Christmas morning alike to me.

But, this is just me and maybe I just think backwards.

[Karthik1]

Originally Posted by Paul H

John V Neun's birthstone...he's a forum member, it's a joke.

Unless the game involves stones of some sort.....hmmmm

Its not a joke JVN's birthday is in February, and Amethyst is the birthstone for February.

[mtaman02]

I choose Both only Because The Countdown is on! Tis just but a week away and I can hardly wait to see what the new challenge lies ahead is. Espicially a challenge which has such a rather interesting clue to hint what it "could" be - darn Dave and his evil ways =)


and of course Ship Date - Becomes it only seems like yesterday that you had kickoff and all of a sudden you gotta throw ( and I use that work loosely) your robot in ure crate and have it shipped. It seems like Ship Date comes faster and faster each year.