Most obsessed

[Kyle Love]

I AM THE MASTER OF THE MALLET! and I'm and amateur hole tapper.

[QT_Angel]

for my first regional (Philly's) I spent over $40 on spirit stuff....I'm a rookie lol what can i say I'm all for spirit

[Joshua May]

Well there's been plenty of stuff, but storing the robot in my house for 3 months is a good one.

[KTorak]

I probably clocked the most hours in our machine shop making parts for our robot this season...and I'm a rookie
I do FIRST stuff before Homework (I had a 4 day weekend that I spent mainly working on the robot..I did homework at 12 am before school the next day, lol. I spend a lot of time on Chief Delphi or other FIRST websites...which seem to distract me from uhh, more important things...like homework I should be doing.
I love robotics...I was sad to part with our robot at regionals for such a long period until nationals...and since i couldn't take it home with me, i took the next best thing, the Operator Interface...its hanging off my wall right now.

[BaldwinNYRookie]

Well, mine isn't very exciting... but as a freshman on a rookie team , the only freshman mind you, I couldn't really do much for the team. I don't know how to do programing, welding just looks dangerous to me, and no one in the shop offered me a job because any job that I could do was so small and insignificant that... why bother? Yet I came. Almost everyday after school for six weeks, from 3 to 7 at least... just sitting, waiting, hoping, for a job to come up. Everyone else gives up so much time to work and build a robot, but it's even tougher giving up so much time waiting for your chance to build a robot. Feeling like you're useless to the team. But I kept going, dedicated, obsessed with the idea that today I'd have a job, today I'll contribute, today I'd be a part of the team. Well today, I am the team photographer (I finally found a job, and a use for my darkroom), and today I know that I'll be in Atlanta April 20th-24!

[haroony341]

other than all of the late nights working in the machine shop, the most obsessed thing i have done was 2 weeks ago at the chesapeake regional. even though i had graduated i still go back. so after a week of finals, iwent down to the naval academy on friday and saturday. but i couldnt get there my self so i asked a former teamate for thursday, i drove done 9 in the morning from ambler (suburb of philly) to the naval academyfor the day and got back home 10 at night. 150 miles one way. then the next day asked another old HS friend and drove down 7 in the morning saturday and got home 10 at night. 300+ miles each day. people even told me i was obsessed. but it was all worth it seeing the team's hard work pay off and see them winning regional chairmans for the 3rd straight year. (past 2 were in philly)

[Ian Curtis]

Generally known as the most obsessed on my team becuase A. tell me a number I'll tell you a name b. Tell me a number or name I'll describe a robot c. I spend at least 4 hours a day on chiefdelphi. Also came in second in attendance this year. I helped in pretty much every area of the robot. And was always one of the last to leave. Of course this is probably helped by the fact I'm in eighth grade and don't have homework.

[BandChick]

My story takes place in 03, when they extended the build season. Myself and 6 of my other team members were working at the shop when it started snowing. So we all took a 20 minute break, ran home to get food blankets and toothbrushes, then came back to the shop and kept working. We decided that if we still had work to do we would have to spend the night in the shop.

[Termite233]

ok I have done many obsessed things...as leslie said...much of the wardrobe is pink...I got Jim Kennedy to say "Go Pink" at a VIP luncheon...that was cool...after competitions we wear our medals...this time on monday when we go back to school we have 3 medals to wear from the year...i have made backgrounds on my com celebrating my team...me (plus a few other people like courtney and maia) came up with the idea for nerdstock 2k5 shirts...so many stupid things like that...i love my team...my life would not be the same without it...last week i bleached my hair and dyed it pink...but i ran out of bleach so it turned out pretty bad...obsession for robotics...isnt it great??

I also dyed scout nazi's hair pink lol...that was funny...I bought christmas lights in all pink...do you know how hard it is to find those? i wasnt even sure they made them...i spent an hour in walmart going through every single box to see if they existed...and they do...wanna see them? in our pit in atlanta!

[JackN]

Well i think reading endless forums on chiefdelphi is obsessive. After FLR i came home and couldn't stop talking about robotics. At first my parents thought i had gone insane with all the capping and autonomus mode and robotics things.

[phrontist]

I hear Dave gave his firstborn child to the program...

I've got nothin'

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by phrontist

I hear Dave gave his firstborn child to the program...

I've got nothin'

Forget that--he's got his daughter running human player duties!

Does waking up at 7:00 AM on a Saturday as a college student just to get to robotics count as obsessed?

Nuthing yet

-Court-

[Joshua May]

Well there's been plenty of stuff, but storing the robot in my house for 3 months is a good one.

[Nate Edwards]

I wrote an 95 page business plan for my team. And revised it three times, I also have written 3 chairman's award, 3 executive summarys, the team handbook, the team application, kept track of all hours, clocked the most hours two years in a row, and won 2 Regional Chairman's Awards. Also I help code the team website, did all of the wiring, supervise drive team practice, pay for the websites for our team, painted the crate twice, and besides the Chairman's Award submission in my second year I had a broken foot so wasn't even allowed in the robot shop due to safety reasons. I think I am a little obssesive, I jumped high in the air when they said 100 page business plan during our winning chairman's award speech this year and everyone looked at me, and finally understood when they announced my teams name and went on to tackle a teammate, almost knock out a ref, grabthe metal, hug Mark Leon and then sat in the stands and cried. Not something everyone wants to admit. But man was I happy.