Bad behavior in the hotels.

[nobrakes8]

Originally Posted by BaldwinNYRookie

The fact that the teachers even need to seal the doors is terrible! Can't we be mature enough to stay inside when we should? Maybe if the teachers didn't actually set so many limits no one would be motivated to break them... I don't know... just a thought. We should all know the limits. I know I'll just want to rest after a full day of competition. I don't think anyone who isn't flat out exhausted at the end of the day, and still has energy to fool around should be on the team. Because they obviously aren't contributing enough, just wasting the team time, and money. I'm not going to work my butt off raising money so someone can go to Atlanta and do nothing but fool around after competition. Let's grow up. If you're not discussing strategy or something, you shouldn't be out of the room. If your coversation isn't a friendly one, be quiet, and get back in your room. It's as simple as that. Can I get an amen?

You're half right and half wrong.

The mentors shouldn't need to monitor us 24/7. My team's mentors are cool and realistic, and they expect us to be realistic back. Most FIRST teams are like that, but out of the 300 teams, probably 20 will have kids that are complete idiots and completely wild. I have a feeling most advisors aren't going to tape kids in their room's simply for the fact they trust their kids, and if their kids leave their room it's for a good reason. (Like to get soda or candy out of a machine)

As far as not leaving the room except to talk stratgey and stuff is a little bit too much to ask. I'm sure the mentors of my team are going to be jokeing around and hanging out with the team 228 mentors, I'm goiing to be with friends from another team, theirs so much more stuff to do than worry about the compeition after you're in the hotel. Even if your robot is majorly damaged, no sense dealing and worrying about stuff that you can't change or fix until the next day. When we get to atlanta we have semi-major problems to figure out, but we won't let that stop us from going bowling and having fun the night before the compeition or the nights of the compeition. If you're worrying about robotics and stratgey 24/7 then it's almost more stress than fun and not worth going.

Just my $0.02

(When i say "you", "your", "you're" I mean people in general not speaking directly to BaldwinNYRookie)