Disclaimer:This is the opinion of Bridgette and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of everyone on Team 121.
Slurms, although not an actual drink, should be our official beverage…
Not play video game consoles in Atlanta? come on… it wouldn’t be a party without xbox. We had some very good Madden and Halo tournaments at UTC but I hope there is a better turnout at nationals. I guess I’ll go bowling in Atlanta. That should be fun. I’ve got a lot of family there so I’m going to ask one of my cousins what there is to do…
Ok so what did your teams dislike or like about where you went in Atlanta last year?
Here is what we did:
World of Coca Cola, I thought it was pretty cool, but it sure did not take long to tour. I liked tasting all of the different flavors of their products from around the world.
CNN, I thought this a big waste of money. It was basically a long escelator ride and then just look at our newsrooms.
Underground, It wasn’t too exciting for me…
STONE MOUNTAIN, this was great. The only disapointing thing was the lift was shut down do to wind. It is a long walk up that mountain! This is a great attraction for sight seeing even though it is a bit of a ride 30 minutes?
We also went to a baseball game, but I personally didn’t go because I do not like baseball.
I will say that what I look forward to most is just hanging out with people, meeting people, and frolic-ing about in the hotel. In the evening, it’s a great time to get acquinated. w00t. - Genia
What other teams are planning on having X-box LAN parties, and what hotels will you be in? (yes, I know there is another thread for “where everyone is staying”) My friends and I will be bringing x-boxes in the event that my team makes it to Atlanta. Just out of curiosity, what other teams will have wall projectors for their Chairman’s Award presentation?
I’ll probably bring my laptop to use in my spare time, even though i’m not to “excited” about bringing it on an airplane and gettings it x-rayed and such. Cell phones are also fun to use to play games and chat on the internet.
Getting my laptop x-rayed fixed a problem I had with my cd drive somehow. It didn’t work before, but worked after.
I’m pretty certain we are making plans to get a nice halo 2 game going on… hopefully over 802.1b connections (I can use my laptop as a bridge, and one of my friends has a game adapter)
our team is leaving at 5:00 in the morning wednesday I think, and we’re taking a charter bus down. we didn’t want to take a plane because we like sitting with eachother for 15 hours on a bus… besides, we’ve yet to completly master playing card games on a bus. I think Dan said he was bringing his guitar, and the goodness of G rated movies from Disney…
Besides, it’s fun to take pictures of a senior when he steals your beanie baby panther and sleeps with it… of course he took the picture and ripped it up and said Freshman need to be nice to their seniors… like that’s going to happen… I argue with everyone on the team.
Does anyone know when and how long these places are open? My team is bothering me for times… If anyone has any answers they can log onto Team 74’s Forum. People keep on asking me for times and all I can answer with is either “I’m too busy to find out” or “I don’t know” or a combination of the two.
FYI: the link will take you directly to the thread.
does anyone wanna put together an unnofficial XBOX/HALO2 comp at atlanta? ill be bringing my XBOX with HALO2 so yeah. how many people can you have at one time on halo2?/?
I spoke with an employee at Stone Mountain last week. The park is open until midnight, howver they are not set up for their official season as of the Championships, so attractions may or may not be open. I inquired about hosting a teambuilding event during the evening, followed by their laserlight show. The show is not running then. The teambuilding would have been too expensive for our team, unfortunately. I sent them material about FIRST so they could try and arrange to have regular activities open when we are there next year.
The SciTrek science museum held special events for FIRST last year but I see they suspended operations in August 2004.
