Saturday, April 28, 2012

Worlds Robotics Championship

This was so freaking cool. The worlds of robotics. The thing that everyone wants to get to. Well my team went down on Wednesday morning. It was a five hour car drive and we got there around 11ish. Then we waited in a line for the pits to be opened up. Once they were opened we went in and started working on setting up our pit. It didn't take us long, as we didn't have a second table so all we had to do was put up the banner that I made up. It was a pretty sweet banner.
 After we set the pits up we didn't really have anything to do until the opening ceremony. It was a lot of fun. Will I Am was there and he played a match or two of the robotics game against Dean Kamen....or however his name is spelled. After the opening ceremony we went to a ghetto hotel. On the way there we got lost and were sitting at a dead end right outside an airport. A police came up behind us and turned the lights on. He came up and we told him we were lost and where we were trying to go. His response was to tell the person on the other end of his radio to disregard something and that it was just a lost family XD Cause we are totally a family....He led us there and we went to sleep.
The next day was the start of matches. Ashley and me went around and get so much stuff from people it was really awesome how much stuff we got. I had a koala stuffed animal like thing at one point, but then someone on my team dissected it :c So we watched some matches and took some pictures. Meet some people. We hung out with one of our friends we had made on Wednesday named Philip.  It was a lot of fun and all, except for the one damper on the matter...
On Friday we watched some more matches, went to the FRC pits hung out there. We did a lot of stuff and had a lot of fun. At the end of the day we went to the alliance selection, and as suspected we didn't get invited to join an alliance. Some of the guys on my team were rather thrilled with this. We had to pick up our pit and get all packed up so on Saturday all we had to do was put the stuff in the cars. Well I managed to get yelled at for no particular reason. Oh wait there was a reason, the reason was that I was standing there while our coach was trying to figure out what was going to happen for that evenings activities. There wasn't anything that I could have done to help with that anyways. After we left there we went back to the hotel and I slept the day away.
Saturday came and went (oh wait its still Saturday). Anyway, we went and watched the finals of FTC and then went to the closing ceremony where a bunch of awards were given out and important looking people talked to us. I don't completely remember it as I wasn't completely awake. We went home after that and after 5 hours of being in a car with the same 5 people, I finally got to the school and was able to go home.  :D

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