I would have to say that the coolest team giveaway I got was the two limited edition pins that I got.
One featured Andy Grady and said Andy Loves Hanson.
The second cool giveaway I got was a pin with “Dave (Lavery) says “That’s Pimp.””
Finally, I got a pin that was made from a Ford logo… That was kind of cool.
What did everyone else get that they thought was the coolest team giveaway this year??
And, what did everyone think of my team’s (237) wooden limited edition to 500 stars??
During the elimination rounds in Archimedes, the #8 alliance teams were trading pins, and one of the adults on 237 gave me the pin off his shirt (which I thought was extremely cool). I feel special having a limited edition pin…I think they’re really cool! 
I didn’t really get anything besides standard pins (no special edition stuff for me) but Team 564 gave out freeware at LI. They told me that they didn’t actually get to give it out at nationals because of tech problems.
It was called the DSD (Driver Strategy Database) and I don’t know if it was the “coolest” giveaway but it definitely gets my vote for most impressive. There’s a searchable database with name and contact info for a large number of teams, as well as the main function, which allows you to create animations of your strategy that you can then show to other teams. It’s pretty much obsolete now (except for offseason events) because it’s specific to this year’s game- but if you were lucky enough to get a copy of it at LI, I suggest you take a look at it, it’s really impressive and professional.
A woman at LI (I think she was a parent) gave me the 311 pin off her shirt. (This was after I gave her my Team 30 bag after taking all my other pins out of it…now that I think about it, it was a pretty cute little scene, all in all.) Yay for nice people! =)
I like my Sie-H20-Bots wood pin. I didn’t realize it was limited edition when I got it. It’s nice to see other people with wood pins. Sadly our quantity of wood pins was limited to judges, ambassadors, and VIPs. Dave Lavery did ask me if our wood pins were laser cut. I have to get a picture of them up sometime. The lady who cut them is amazing on the scroll saw. My other favorites are my special edition MOE pins and my MOE sticks. :clap clap, clap clap clap, clap clap clap clap, Go MOE!
My favorite givaway is my Thunder Chickens t-shirt, my Lavery pin, and my 388 hat.
To every team we played with and some people who asked for them my team gave away copies of The America’s Army Special Forces Video Game, US OTC mouse pads, and US OTC coasters.
Well I must inject Team’s 45 playing cards. They definitely weren’t something I expected to see. I saw those Andy Grady pins but never got one 
. My favorite was the JVN really-limited-edition pins I saw at UTC (?). Again I didn’t get one, wish I did. Maybe off-season, throw one my way (hint hint someone from 229)? I usually collect the pins from the alliances my team has been partnered with the past few years, but I didn’t get one from 386 (got a hat though…thaaaaanks) or 237 (if anyone wants to trade for one this summer…come see me!).
-Tom
I don’t know what they are called but Team FRUSION ( 364 ) gave away the things where you tip them and they go " woooaaahpp, waahhhhpp " I didn’t get one but my sister did, and I stole it and play with it all the time. 
That and the little devil rubber ducks. Those things act as good stress balls when your the driver in finals.
the duckys scared me but my personal favorite was the parachute man.
Nate
Those things ended up all over our hotel getting stuck in the elevators.
One of our girls ended up with these cool flashy teeth she said she got from the GM booth. I don’t know if she got it from the GM people or from a particular team but they were pretty cool.
My favorite has to be the 1996 Operation Orange pin I got at the History of FIRST workshop. I also liked the frisbee from 48, and the parachute guy from the robodawgs was, well, lets just say one or two made their way down the atrium in the Marriot. 
I thought that Chief Delphi had the coolest and most practical giveaways. The plastic side guards that attached to glasses were the best. I saw so many people wearing them! It was so convinient to be able to turn glasses with polycarb lenses into safety glasses by adding these clever little shields. Great job for “raising the bar” on team giveaways!
Rob
The parachute guys were the best! Or the frisbee things! Our advisors and a few of us had some major fun throwing them out of the hotel room windows… :rolleyes:
Well to anyone who cares i have one Andy Grady loves Hanson button left so pm me if your interested 
and yes andy has sworn revenge on me and tia for making this button but i gotta give most of the credit to tia she photoshopped the image and made the buttons i just took the picture of andy :ahh:
edit:RollinTDollin pm’ed me first so he gets the button sry everyone i’m out of them now:edit
Crap! how did I miss these??? I NEED those plastic side guards…I look like an absolute moron wearing two pairs of glasses! grrr…hey ChiefDelphi, anyone have a spare pair they can mail me? I’ll love you forever (PM me)
I think the coolest giveaways were:
I liked the Techokats cards from last year, my piece of extrusion from 930, and my chicken from the thunderchickens (now lives on the handle of my quik-grip on my desk ).
Eric
Ha…I have one of them in my room right now. I forget who I stole it from. I also liked the cyberwolves game they gave out. I just haven’t had time to play yet. The parachute men were fun. One came close to parachuting 6 floors off our balcony at the embassy suites. I guess it could have got the hackey sack…oops.
The wooden pins your team passed around ROCKED! I was amazed - particularly when I found out they were all done by hand by one team Mom with a scroll saw!
-dave
Hey Dave, would you say that it’s pimp? 
Anyway, yeah, I belive that I have a wooden pin from you gus last year. They are amazing and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
I have my Sie-H20-Bots wooden limited edition pin on my purse still!
My friend got this really funny sun glasses too that someone traded for a stressball… i’m not exactly sure if there was a team giving them out because i didn’t see anyone else wearing anything like 'em!