pic: Panoramic Pic from Nationals 2001

[Swan217]

Yeah, 2001 was the year when we got the ponchos, which were of course a moot point by the time we got them, cuz we were already soaking.

And then in 2002, it was raining so hard that a few teams spent their free time making "rain-angels" in the parking lot (as opposed to snow-angels)

My point was that it never seemed to rain on Saturdays during opening or closing ceremonies.

[crazyone]

(with a tear in the cornor of an eye) Oh the memories, the long days screaming for teams, sweating over robots ,scouting ,cheering, going horse,getting tan. I just can't wait to do it all again this year. 2 weeks and 2 days away

[Andrew Rudolph]

Oh man i rember all of that, we left when it rained that night and we knew it was going to flood, we were in a parking lot. And put everything up on tables and we had our crate in the pit so in and on top of that. We came the next mronign and there was a line about 6 inches up on everything.

I fondly rember the awards ceremony that took like 3 hours, then when mandy moore came on we all left. I felt bad, i dont liek walking out of peoples concerts even if they are some big recording act, but i did anyways it just took waaaay to long. I also rember from that night when we were leaving the every lasting EEEEEEYYYY that was going on under the spaceship earth. i think i started it bye making fun of some guy out there who was trying to call someone, but then again i might be wrong. I just remeber how loud it was then being at the pits and still hearing the echos of the yells. I think there is a thread on it somewhere.

While nationals at Epcot were GREAT I'm happy we moved on it was just too expensive and being outside was not great. Thats why there are no more competitions out side. I hope that Atlanta is better than houston was, and houston was pretty awesome.

[gsensel]

I must admit, the only reason I saw any of the concert was because I was dsown by the stage getting the trophy for the animation award. Otherwise I would have been out of there.

[rachakate]

We were handing out frisbees that year, and most of them went to people to prop boxes up on and get them away from the water. Oh the memories...