PSPs at regionals

[dorime]

ME, I'll be goin to Denver. I'll probably only bring GTA. If anyone else is going to Colorado tell me and I might bring whatever if you wanna have the WiFi goin.

[Taylor]

If any of the kids on our team bring a PSP or similar device off the bus and into the venue, I am not going to be a very happy camper. FIRST presents so many opportunities to meet people from all over (even as far away as San Juan, PR) with common interests, common experiences, and really cool robots to look at/watch. Tons of scouting, marketing, fun-having in general. If somebody would rather spend his/her time playing video games, then that person quite honestly just doesn't get it.
Even if the regional gets "boring" (which I still don't understand, but I guess when you pass that 20-year-mark your attention span increases by about 2 hours), the kids are on a college campus with all the excitement and trappings. At BMR, they could go on a guided tour of a proton accelerator, nuclear reactor, airport, lots of excessively cool stuff that I would have killed to be able to do when I was in HS. Plus, especially for high schoolers, college students are HOT!
To say I'd rather play video games than experience all this is a slap in the face to FIRST, to the staff and volunteers that planned and worked on the regional, to the host university, to other teams, to my own teammates, and to myself. I would be robbing myself of the experience of a lifetime.

[Choi9111]

Any body going to kansas city regional? i have: dynasty warriors 2, Naruto (narutomite), nfs carbon, street supremecy, SW battlefront 2, guilty gear judgement, blade dancer, katamari and me, ghost in shell, and sum others but i cant remember them.

[ZeetherKID77]

I have a DS

[geodaman191]

i got one, i jhave MLB 06 the show, and both socoms, so if you want to play against me let me know.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I think boiler has hit the head on the nail. There shouldn't be any games at the venues. I didn't even allow my team to bring their systems or games to the hotel because we planned some activities with team 107. However, someone on 107 brought a PS2 and they were held up in that room.

No offense, I just don't get how students can give up an experience this easily. And don't call playing someone over WIFI meeting new people. Meeting new people is a person-to-person thing.