When were you first spotted at a FIRST competition?

[Billfred]

Everyone here seems to meet each other in the funniest of places.

My first outing was at Palmetto. Several of the gals from 433 had posted on our team's message board, plotting to get a game of Taboo going. (If you're wondering, they pwned us on Friday night, after the social.) So we all get to the regional, and on Thursday I'm walking down the middle row of pits, where both 1293's and 433's pits were set up. Out of nowhere, Meredith (aka fireboidsgrl) from the Firebirds comes up to me and says...

Excuse me...are you Billfred?

So, when was the first time someone spotted you at a FIRST competition?

[Dorienne]

Unfortunately, I haven't been spotted yet, but I really hope I am spotted in '05!
It'd not only be totally awesome, it'd be hilarious too.
It'd be funny to have someone walk up to you that you've never seen before say "are you RoboGirl007?"
I really hope that happens. It'd be classic for me.
--d0ri

[Mike Schroeder]

umm i get random people all the time comming up to me and going HEY BIG MIKE and i always feel bad cause i dont hardly know who they are.... then there are those people i am looking for and i walk right by...

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

The first time anyone came up to me and call me by my CD name was in Atlanta last year. I just remember someone yelling "Hey sigmakid108" (my old cd name). Can't remember who it was (someone from 25 i think). I usually like to go to other peoples pit then have them come to mine cause then I get a chance to check out their robot.

[Ashley Weed]

hehe, the first person to ever spot me was actually the one and only Mr. Baker himself.... .... if I had only known who I was talking too, I don't think I would of been so calm in the presencs of the 2003 TechnoKat floor team including the famous Andy and DJ.

... the first time I ever heard any requests or was recognized was in Texas right after our arrival, and Matt (team 5) knew that Grant (evulish) was on 84.

//I wish I were only have as cool as I would like to be.

[Lisa Perez]

Well.. Technically, I wasn't spotted at a FIRST competition.. I was spotted at the WPI Frontiers program where FIRST people came up to me and went, "Are you Lisa Perez?"

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Ashley Weed

hehe, the first person to ever spot me was actually the one and only Mr. Baker himself.... .... if I had only known who I was talking too, I don't think I would of been so calm in the presencs of the 2003 TechnoKat floor team including the famous Andy and DJ.

Heh... yes I remember that. Team 84 was right behind team 45 in queing for our field. Our drive teams started talking. I remembered that 84 had a female driver who posted on CD under the name of "weedie" (or something like that), so I asked you if you were her. You had this suprised look on your face, and I realized that you were caught off guard.

Team 84 - Chuck is great. We allied with you (and 111) in '99 and came one match from winning the Championships. Oh, the memories.

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As for when I was first recognized from involvement on these boards, it was probably around the time of '99 Nationals. That was when we had our first webhug. Kate Leach and Colleen Shaver asked me if I was Andy Baker. Also, we had a pit next to team 42, so I met Andy Grady at about the same time.

Andy B.

Andy B.

[Matt Leese]

I think the first time anyone recognized who I was who I hadn't met first was Andy Baker at the 2001 Kickoff. This year I got a lot of "I recognize your name from Chief Delphi." I'm still trying to figure out if that was a good sign.

Matt

[EddieMcD]

Originally Posted by Big Mike

umm i get random people all the time comming up to me and going HEY BIG MIKE and i always feel bad cause i dont hardly know who they are.... then there are those people i am looking for and i walk right by...

Ditto (well, except they don't go HEY BIG MIKE to me, they go HEY EDDIEMCD). Must be the hair.

Anyhow, to answer the question, Nationals 2001 was when I really started meeting people from CD. Don't remember who sought me and who I went seeking, but I can definitely say that was the first time someone came up to me and knew who I was.

[Corey Balint]

NEVER!!! and never will be mwahahahahaha. The first one to actually find me at a comp and call me by my delphi name, ill give a team 25 memento. the other ones, ill also give something, but not as good.

ive only been spotted as the driver from 25, normally b/c of the trucker hat i wear.

[Bill Gold]

The first person who spotted me at a FIRST event was Joe Ross at LA in 2001.

[Koko Ed]

This was my first year of actual noteriety (something about some sort of fantasy game or something) but I met Joe at Buckeye last year. That was the first one I remember.

[Elgin Clock]

In 2002 at Nationals I was recognized, but only because I went to the College night get-together and was pre-arranged to meet some people anyways..

Other than that, I think this year was the FIRST year that I actually had someone come up to me at a competition (who I did not know) and ask me if I was who I am.

That was at the NJ regional this year (only my 4th year in FIRST ) and I don't remember who it was off-hand.. Sorry.

[greencactus3]

none yet, but of course tats because noone knows what i look like. heh. i should prolly get a photo up sumtime

[Madison]

I don't think that anyone's ever "spotted" me in this sense, as the people I run into most when I go to competitions are people I consider friends. For the most part, I try to avoid being recognized by people and will often have conversations with people I know from the boards here without them ever knowing whom they're talking with.