I thought I would put this out there now to start planning. This mostly applies to college students.
I know I am planning to goto Atlanta in 05, but going by myself is not cost effective. I am hoping to find other people with which to share a hotel room with.
Right now is time for interest to be gauged, not commitments. Post if you are planning to go, but would like to room share.
i am senior in high school. happens to be my team always has been to natonals and we ended up on the last tier… unless we win a regional it doesnt look like SigmaC@T will go to nationals (we are confident that we will win a regional). If anything happens and SigmaC@t doesnt go, me and few of my friends will go to nationals together and volunteer…
I’ll be heading there myself, so I’d definitely be up to sharing a room. If anyone would be taking off out of Bradley in Hartford, I’d be all for trying to get on the same flight too.
There’s a slim (ahem, very slim) chance that I’ll be going to nationals with a team … we’ll see. Even if I go with them, though, I’ll still probably have to pay my own way. I might have the finances to go to Nationals, but I need some time before I’ll know for sure. If I don’t get down to Atlanta this year, I’ll definitely be going to IRI. I’ll also try to keep everyone updated.
For all you teamless people… we need to figure out when it’s convenient for everyone to hang out. Browse the pictures from last year, and you’ll see a big group of us that all met at the Hard Rock. That was a ton of fun, and I met a lot of new people (here’s looking at you, Mike Walker, Cory, Jeremy Roberts, and starting a tradition of it being Ken’s birthday ), and I would LOVE to do that again.
Of course, arrangements can be made after Kickoff, at least…
It might, however, be a good idea to make arrangements for said meetup more than 24 hours before. Most of the planning was done either well after midnight between me and Cory on AIM, or via cell phone from the Detroit airport, the Atlanta subway system, and the street corner in front of the
Hard Rock Cafe.
Oh, and DJ, regardless of what Kokomo schools taught you, 6 does not equal 11.
If I needed to, I could probably survive that trip off of a continental breakfast each morning (if I had to)…but everything else costs money. Travel will cost at least $100…flying or driving…unless some people want to carpool down there (long drive from here) and split gas money. And then I need somewhere to stay, unless you know somewhere I can stay for free!
I’m driving down there, teamless as far as the competition goes. I found a room a few miles from downtown for about fifty a night, which I’d be more than happy to go fourthsies with. There’s somewhere between one and three slots left–I’ve got some leads out.
But yeah–PM me or IM me or send smoke signals if you’d be up for such a deal.
I’m looking for a room. I may be driving down with some other people though, but a common hotel for non team peopel would be awesome. What hotel will you be at?
FYI: I’m going as a FIRST volunteer again, but this year I may be in need of a room to share with at least three other college students. Personally, I’d be willing to spend some money to get a nice hotel room really close to the Georgia Dome (up to $200/night). If we get four people in a room; each person only has to pay for one night!
Currently, I’m looking at the Days Inn Atlanta Southlake in Morrow, GA. (my sole link so far is through Travelocity, which apparently does dynamic links. grrr). $50.66 per night, although I’m sure that doesn’t include taxes.
Just a quick note: Traffic is going to pretty bad on Thurs and Friday morning/afternoon if you stay that far outside the perimeter (if you leave really early in the morning and come back late it shouldn’t be an issue though). I live north outside the perimeter and work downtown. Without traffic it takes me 25-30min, with traffic it can take an hour or more.
Then again the hotel prices are a bit cheaper. The package deals downtown are really good in my opinion though.
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Of course we can’t forget MARTA. If the hotel is near a stop then you’re all good.
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There’s a Super 8 or Motel 6 or something fairly close to the Georgia Dome (i.e within walking distance). It was about $50 a night last year. I personally didn’t really have much of a problem with it but there were a number of other teams complaining about it so you may want to take that into consideration. It definitely wasn’t great by any means but it was a place to sleep.