Hotel Fun

[Vin211]

Well back in the day when the National Competition was at Epcot our team stayed right in one of the Disney hotels. Now most Disney hotels have a really nice air conditioning system along with a ceiling fan. What we use to do was make a toilet paper chandalier.

Along with designing our own toilet paper chandalier, we encountered design disputes. It usually turned into a toilet paper fight. Believe me, trying to get rid of all that toilet paper before morning inspections was a challenge.

The Disney staff was baffled that we went through so much toilet paper in just a couple days.

Good TIMES!

[sammie771]

Now that sounds like a good time! Something I will deffinately do in the near future.

[RoboCat05]

In Vegas our fun was all of us in one room playing poker. Also going room to room just having fun, since we were the only team at our hotel. We would just randomly walk into someones room do some random things and leave.

[Joe_P.]

one thing we did at peachtree was duct tape our back-up human player and locked him in his room... imagine what our team said when we came in for the team meeting... lets just say that the rest of the team better watch out for me and a good roll of duct tape at nats

[StephLee]

The guys on our team had an x-box and a ps2, but I don't know how much they used them. Between using the gym at 2 am and playing tennis against the wall, I don't know how they managed enough sleep to keep them on their feet...

(Just for clarification, the tennis wall was the wall between team rooms; no non-FIRSTers were annoyed to the best of my knowledge.)

Other than that, we just watched movies.

[Joe_P.]

we also had a ps2 and going a little further back in gaming history, we also had sega dreamcast that one of our team members must have gotton for christams.... palying capcom vs. snk2 until 2 in the morning is not recomended, neither is playing metal gear solid 3, SRS, or need for speed underground

[slickguy2007]

Did anybody get curfews? If so at what time? Did you figure out any ways to convince your advisor not to give you curfews?


GO 1403!!!

[Winged Wonder]

Besides human jenga, we also tend to play SSBM (-sighs and considers spelling it out for people who arent familiar with acronymns- Super Smash Bros. Melee) tournaments along with playing Halo and who could forget: DDR!!! (all teams are always welcome to join in on the festivites if theyre around!) we also tend to play RISK if we have the time... (the first time i played i lasted a grand total of 5 minutes... it was very disheartening) ... and if theres some sort of a store nearby (like a target or wal-mart) we usually take a field trip and get some movies to watch or in some cases... hair dye. and if theres a pool we'll have fun in there (even in freezing weather)... but whats even more fun than that, is trying to fit as many people into a hot tub as possible... those of you who crammed into the hottub at the Omni and got yelled at for flooding the first floor last year at Nationals know what i'm talking about... we are creative, easily amused, and try to make the most of our time while we're missing school and theres down time at the hotel.

[BoyWithCape195]

What about the WW dance


(That, for sure, sounds like hotel fun!)

[UsmanB]

we prank called the boys in the other room and used "Microsoft Sam" to speak text that we typed. we made it say that they had bought adult entertainment channels and would have to pay the next day at the front desk. my friend recorded the whole thing, and then since our mentor was in room right next to us we heard one of the kids from the room go and explain to him...

the next morning heading to the competition, my mentor knew it was us and we showed him video and he was cracking up. he told us that we shoulda seen the looks on their faces, they totally fell for it. it was april fools besides that we watched movies on laptop, went swimming, and just joked around.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by slickguy2007

Did anybody get curfews? If so at what time? Did you figure out any ways to convince your advisor not to give you curfews?


GO 1403!!!

My team always had an 11:00-12:00 curfew.

If your advisors give you a curfew in the first place, you're most likely not going to be able to talk you way out of it.

I can't wait to be teamless with no curfew this year, though

[UsmanB]

they said that we werent supposed to be out at 11 and they couldnt control what happened inside the rooms anyways. so i guess 11 was the curfew but i know that everybody was up past 11

[Joe_P.]

Originally Posted by slickguy2007

Did anybody get curfews? If so at what time? Did you figure out any ways to convince your advisor not to give you curfews?


GO 1403!!!

we had to be back in the room by 11:00, but we could stay up as long as we wanted

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

Team 108 always has a room at our hotel that has people playing poker (anyone who wants to challange us come by the 108 pit and I'll let you know when we will be playing that night). We also like to just order pizza and chill out watching some matches from that day and then the seniors usually go hang out with our mentors while the young'ens go to sleep.

[Scott Chambliss]

My team is based at Grady high school, which is in downtown Atlanta and like a 10-minute drive from the Dome, so we will miss out on all of the hotel-festivities. Also, our regional (Peachtree) is so close that we just drive. Next year we are planning on going to mult. regionals, but have no idea which one(s). Any suggestions for an Atlanta-based team?