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[JaneYoung]

We should have a 'Steps Taken For FIRST' contest. Everyone wear a pedometer and keep a log of how many miles you walked at the St. Louis Championship. That could be a lot of fun. Do they make pedometers for robot carts?

Jane

P.S. What is this going to do to the whole "ROBOT" yell in the midst of an exodus? Create a chorus line?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

We should have a 'Steps Taken For FIRST' contest. Everyone wear a pedometer and keep a log of how many miles you walked at the St. Louis Championship. That could be a lot of fun. Do they make pedometers for robot carts?

Jane

The only counting that'll be going on with me is the hundreds of times I will be counting to ten trying to lead these teams too the proper field amidst all the chaos FIRST has wrought.

[PaW]

Like many of the posters on this thread, I too am not pleased with this news. I hope there's another part of "the plan" that hasn't been unveiled yet, to take away this bitter taste of disappointment.

I loved the situation in the Georgia Dome. I loved being able to walk the oval and go from Curie to Archimedes to Newton to Galileo. I loved searching for my 'home regional' teams and visiting with them. I liked 'the intimacy' of each individual field, but I liked 'all of it together' in one spot. Common lighting, common seating, predictable restroom locations, overpriced food. I guess I will miss that.

But still...

My kids are stoked. No one on 1899 has been to CMP, ever... not the mentors, not the kids. This will be their first time... it might be their only time.

They are so looking forward to sharing the field with HOF teams, powerhouse teams, RCA winners, and regional winners from around the globe. They're excited about touring the pits and seeing these fantastic machines up close and personal, machines that they've only seen on webcasts or photos.

Without Atlanta as a reference, they will have a nice empty canvas to paint their own memories from this experience. I won't let this situation bring them down.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

We should have a 'Steps Taken For FIRST' contest. Everyone wear a pedometer and keep a log of how many miles you walked at the St. Louis Championship. That could be a lot of fun. Do they make pedometers for robot carts?

Jane

P.S. What is this going to do to the whole "ROBOT" yell in the midst of an exodus? Create a chorus line?

Robot pedometers? I think an encoder would work

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

We should have a 'Steps Taken For FIRST' contest. Everyone wear a pedometer and keep a log of how many miles you walked at the St. Louis Championship. That could be a lot of fun. Do they make pedometers for robot carts?

Jane

P.S. What is this going to do to the whole "ROBOT" yell in the midst of an exodus? Create a chorus line?

We, me and my best friend (as Ed says my twin), did this in Florida for the regional. The distances we walked were astronomical! It is fun to see how far you walk each day!

Cass