Jealousy is setting in now!!!!

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Posted by Jessica Boucher.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.

Posted on 9/11/2000 1:35 PM MST


In Reply to: Jealousy is setting in now!!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/11/2000 11:59 AM MST:



I'm sorry to say this, but I'm going to have to sit on the fence for this one (something I never do).

I am one of the few that likes the UTC NE Regional venue. I like it because its close, a lot of teams are there, UTC does a prety decent job with it, and because there is a lot of seating, so teams aren't cramped together (trust me, if you saw '99 Philly's pit area, that is cramped).

BUT. I don't like it as well. I have now experienced first hand the veteran's adage that 'FIRST is meant to be held in a gym' with going to RiverRage, a mini-comp, but in a gym, nontheless. So I can see where the veterans are coming from. The gym has a feeling to it that you don't get at the Meadows or at Einstein stage. The crampness is good. The sound echoes. It's got its own charm.

My advice is to merge the best of both worlds: a bigger gym. Philly '99 was held in Temple University, which has a great gym that had the gym/closeness feeling but also had the room-to-breathe thing going on too. UCONN @ Gampel Pavillion would be a nice venue. Or even a college in Massachuttes, to make the northern & southern New-Englanders happy. Heck, I wouldn't mind not commuting to the Meadows each day of the regionals.

But, hey, I'm just glad FIRST listened & stuck the nationals a week after the regionals, which means our team won't get sick again like last year. Plus, I'm glad the UTC regional is one of the first regionals, instead of the last one before the nationals (no offense, but who thought up the idea of having the regionals the furthest away from the nationals with the longest shipping & traveling distance the week before the nationals?)

Scratch, our entire team is moody after RiverRage; I think we all need some sleep ::grin::

-Jess Boucher, Student Leader #237