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Originally Posted by EricH

As I recall, bottled water is allowed in the pits, and there are usually drinking fountains.

I guess that depends on the event. I just double-checked the rules and they say nothing about bringing in drinks, just food; at VCU they search your bags to make sure you aren't carrying food or drink into the building (or other some other things, like guns, I imagine). As I recall, they aren't quite as uptight at the Championship, and they definitely weren't at Palmetto (they actually gave the teams some bottled water at Palmetto). I guess you're right about water fountains, but I have always been wary of them at FIRST competitions; I'm usually not a person that is uptight about keeping everything clean and germ-free (case-in-point: I make a point of avoiding anti-bacterial soap and other excessively powerful sanitizers), but after my brother mysteriously came down with mono right after a regional, not to mention the norovirus outbreak at VCU in 2004, I try to avoid them.