Hotel Fun

[angelofsumthin]

dude, at annapolis, we took the ice buckets and put soda and stuff in them, and walked around drinkin it all night
also, sum of us dyed our hair just for the fun of it
ah man, chinese food at like, 1 o clock at night
and that game.....ah....its like u put sumone in a sleeping bag and tackle them at random intervals, and it doesnt hurt cuz theyre in a sleeping bag
we also stole ppl's shoes and locked them in the safes....hahahaha.....that was awesome
i love it and nationals it shud be a blast
cant wait to see all of u there
~Angel

[CRAZYMADI]

4 poeple, 36 cans of MOuntain Dew, Water guns, and rading other rooms.


ohhh boy............it was hell of fun. WE finally end up building a mountain dew pyramid in teh morning. IT WAS FUN>

[Greg Ross]

All I can do is shake my head. It's sad to see how immature/mean/stupid/inconsiderate/inappropriate (etc.) some people can be.

[Sakura141]

one of the kids on our team snuck his X-Box in and Halo 2... the mentors found him and got REALLY mad!

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Most of the time our team just sits in each others rooms and watches tv and talks.

Thursday and Friday night we have drive/pit/scouting meetings where we talk about other teams and how things have been going, those are usually an hour.
Then, if something is close, like a mall, or in atlanta Centenial Olympic Park (party in the park) is right across the street, we'll go there and play football or frisbee.

To be honest, i don't know how or why some of you guys are allowed to get away with some of the stuff you're written in this thread. We've been asked to return to hotels because of good behavior. It seems other teams do not have the same things. It's a disappointment, but not all things are perfect i suppose.

Dori-I want to play floor tag!!!

[RoboMom]

I was debating whether to respond to this but here comes the Robomom talk...

It's ok to have fun at a hotel. It's not ok to disturb other guests and damage property. Any damage will be billed to your team/your school/your sponsor and you will be held responsible. As a team. If you want to trash someplace, have a party at your house.

Your actions reflect on your team/your school/your sponsors.
And guess what! The judges are everywhere! Even on Chief Delphi! Surprise!
There, I feel better.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Your actions reflect on your team/your school/your sponsors.
And guess what! The judges are everywhere! Even on Chief Delphi! Surprise!
There, I feel better.

Agreed!
And I have to ask...what makes you think that your mentors,teachers, parents and other teams are not reading this? If they (mentors, judges, other teams) didn't know who you were then, they certainly do now. Goodbye ________ award.

[Koko Ed]

Yeah guys I have to say this thread was not a good idea.
Wasn't the stuff going on in this thread the reason this thread came into existence?
Just remember if a hotel equates FIRST with destrction then they will probably not host FIRST teams anymore. It's always fun til somebody gets hurt. Or sued.

[KORN_lover_2007]

[quote=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?


Our team's curfew sucked for regionals. We had to be in our rooms by 10:00. Although I don't see why since we hadn't gotten in trouble or anything. I am a rookie on my team this year, but some older team members said that last year the curfew was our team number, 11:08. I think that would be much more realistic for a bunch of high school students. I tried to talk mentors out of this year's curfew, but it didn't work. I don't know what it's going to be for nationals, but hopefully it's later than 10:00.
For our hotel fun....well....we pretty much just hung out with members of team 93 since they were at the same hotel as us for Indiana regionals. Although a lot of the time they were immersed in some videogames. But we did find a "secret" little cozy room with big comfy chairs and everything where we could all just sit and hang out. And a couple of guys on our team took a little trip to White Castle for snacks.

[katiyeh07]

Originally Posted by Keiko173

Most of the time our team just sits in each others rooms and watches tv and talks.

Thursday and Friday night we have drive/pit/scouting meetings where we talk about other teams and how things have been going, those are usually an hour.
Then, if something is close, like a mall, or in atlanta Centenial Olympic Park (party in the park) is right across the street, we'll go there and play football or frisbee.

To be honest, i don't know how or why some of you guys are allowed to get away with some of the stuff you're written in this thread. We've been asked to return to hotels because of good behavior. It seems other teams do not have the same things. It's a disappointment, but not all things are perfect i suppose.

Dori-I want to play floor tag!!!

Yeah our team pretty much has meetings when we get back from the competition, then most of us just sit in our rooms, watch tv and what not.
Every time we've gone to a hotel, there's been people that have been up to the early hours of the morning either running through the halls, or prank calling rooms. It's unfair to not only the FIRST people (especially the mentors, who are older and need the sleep), but more so the non-FIRST people that are staying at the hotel. And it's also not fair to the other teams that get a complaint from the manager of the hotel that had nothing to do with it. I think all of you who think you have free reign over the hotel should be a little more considerate of others next time.

And hey Buzz is staying at the same hotel, we should play ultimate frisbee, or football in the park.

[artdutra04]

As I was reading through this thread yesterday and today, some of the things that teams have done and thought as “fun” are not really that fun at all. The way you act, in or out of FIRST arenas, will always reflect back upon your team. The same gracious professionalism that carries us through the pits and onto the playing field should and does not end at the competition arena door. Although it may seem like fun to prank call everyone, and run down the hallways, playing ding-dong-ditch, or even worse (duct-taping students, trashing hotel rooms, etc), these actions will reflect back upon on not only your team, but the entire FIRST program. Do we really want FIRST to be known as the rampaging bunch of hooligans?

I seriously doubt that other people staying in the hotel would welcome prank calls at all hours of the night. I don’t think hotel management likes ruined walls from where the duct taped freshman was ripped off. I really don't think that innocent bystanders or people walking through the hotel like becoming the victims of Super-Soaker attacks. Would you act this way while in the competitions? Would your grandmothers be proud if you told them about these incidents?

Although I know that being in a huge hotel is tempting, please, for the sake of FIRST, obey the rules. We do not need every hotel to ban us. There are plenty of fun things to do that don’t break the rules, or upset other people. I don’t feel as if it is my place to lecture you on what you can and can’t do in the hotel, but I will say to use good judgment. There is a right place and time for everything and the hotel certainly isn’t the right place for a lot of the previously mentioned “fun” times.

- Art Dutra

PS. Listen to the wise Brandon Martus. Think before you (re)act.

[team66t-money]

we had a blast at our hotel at western michigan we were in the same hotelas team 27 who we faced in the finals but they had alittle to fun in the pool they had this ball and it hit the clock in the pool area and it hit the ground and shattered.

[santosh]

for all the last trips (ptree twice, VCU nationals, and boilemraker) in my room, each person generally if lucky can get about a max of 5 hours of sleep per regional. It is fun but we always end up paying for it.

For fun we chill out in eachothers rooms, play football outside our bball. Anything really.
playfully make fun of the yankees with 2 train robotics and they make fun of our Braves.
TV is always on ESPN.
And man at Peachtree this year, it was at the same complex as our Basketball state championship tournament. it was so awesome. We basically left comptition after the day was over and went to the game. And we won the 5A state championship for boys in the state of GA. and beat Louis Williams.

If anyone wants to hang out at during Nationals. pm me. our team is always looking for other people to hang out with. We are at the Mariott Marquis

[cire]

I went to bed at early every night at our last regional, im the driver for the robot so i decided I wanted to be wide awake on the field. everybody else musta stayed 2-6 hours later then me I still had tons of fun playing halo 2 and super smash brothers melee, but no disruptive things happened (that im aware of anyways)

[santosh]

We all actually try and sleep in our room. But there is just something about being on a robotics trip that makes us all stay up.