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Monday, March 21, 2005

Technical Difficulties

Ahem, Is this thing on?

Well its been a while since the updating of this so lets have a looksy shall we?

My birthday came and went with out and spectacular bells or whistles. I recieved a Zen Micro, tis beautifull, its all shiny and red and i love it. I didnt recieve brothers in arms because it just recently came out on the PC. I did however pre-order Guild Wars and was able to play a little bit over this last weekend for the March Beta Event Weekend, but considering this Weekend has been such a blast i have to give the updates!

We had the NJ REGIONAL BABY! Oh my god it was sooo fun. Thursday was all pracitce day and im glad we had it. We worked out all the little kinks in driving the thing so after that everything went smooth with our bot. We were paired up with some dead weight partners throughout the day but everyone did their best so i cant hold it against them. Our robot was a thing of beauty though. The Bihler Way. Clean Cut, Massive, Efficient, And Simple. The sheet armor that we had, we kept getting people asking about it, it was beautifull. I was Co-Piolting and Mike was doing the driving. "Big Mike" the 303 coach and engineer, though he is a pretty menacing guy to look at it, hes one of the funniest and nicest guys to talk too. About the time alliance pickings came around on saterday, i was a nervous wreck. I was very worried that the other teams werent gonna pick us. 56 the highest seated team picked 237. Both great robots and great people on their teams. Nice smart people. After the first round of alliance picking, me being all nervous, i saw Mike (driver) looking up at us (in strategy) jumping up and down. All of the sudden 56 says "We would also like to extend out to our other old freinds, team 303!" And My god i didnt jump and yell so hard in all my life. Finals went by so fast. We were a very dominating offensive force. By the time the last match came around it was us vs. the 103 alliance who was with 375 and Immaculata. There was a technical difficulty in one of the matches but i wont go into it because its allready been beaten to death. All i have to say is, Congrats to the winners. I am happy getting a medal! I never really won a medal for doing anything, and this time being a first year on the robotics team and a co-piolt and winning a medal, it just feels so good. I also have to thank 237 and 56, never would of been possible without you guys. Also thanks to Corey from team 25 for the little pep talk before the last match. The next event we go to will be the off season event of PARC, cant wait to see 222 in action, have yet to lay eyes on their beauty. Oh man, i doubt i will ever forget this experience. Thanks to all who made it possible, strategy team, pit crew, Mike, Big Mike, 237, 56, and all the other teams. One special note goes out to team Falcon Robotics. They were so efficient and clean cut about their ways i didnt even realize they were rookies. Congrats to them too. Okay thats that. I missed alot of information but i cant put all the images in my head down onto the keyboard and make it sound sensible and coherent. So with that all said, i bid you all farewell.

Keith

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