Question: What was the first FIRST competition you attended?

[SPurekar]

My first FRC competition was Pittsburg in 2005. It was probably the best regional I’ve been to, even though we had some bad luck... We were picked by MOE (seeded 1st) an alliance partner for eliminations and were celebrating afterwards cause we were sure we’d definitely win the competition, when the judges realized there had been a mistake in the rankings and we had to redo alliance selections. We were picked the second time around by the seventh seeded team and lost early in eliminations. I don’t remember if MOE won, but we were really disappointed…

But I made a new friend from 365 out of it… and found a name for my new hammerhead shark (it’s a stuffed toy), so it was all good in the end.

~Smita