Last week, I went to Atlanta for the FIRST Robotic’s World Championship at the Georgia Dome.  If you’ve been following my tweets, you should already know this.  It was a wonderful time!  I was head referee for the Curie field (at the World Championship, there are four fields with 80 teams per field and then the winners from each field go to the championship “Einstein” field”)  There were teams from all of the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Israel, and Brazil.  Next year, there will be teams from New Zealand too!  The competition was intense, but as a ref, very challenging to referee.  If you want to view some matches, go to thebluealliance.net to see some.  I recommend the championship matches.

I also want to thank Paul for being a good travel buddy, Ian from Phoenix for being a good head ref mentor and new friend, same with Aidan Browne, and Hogan Eng for being an all around nice guy (and picking up the tab at Morton’s!).  Oh, and shout outs to Terell and Roxie for being being funny and cool to work with.  That also includes the others on my ref crew:  Chris, Alan, Michael, Michael, Brandon, Steve, and Liz.