Handed a press pass and free reign of the garage bays, I naturally fell to doing what I would've done without the pass, taking pictures and talking to people about their projects. And then writing about it. Except, with the press pass, I'm not near so tempted to write about how awful it is that the spectators don't get to see any of the bots close up. It is awful, it's just that I don't care so much.

Flipping through a pamphlet, looking at the teams and their bots, I just noticed that Virginia Tech has two bots, both built on similar "golf carts". I wonder what's the story behind the two seperate entries? Competing efforts, or fundamentally one team with two mules? Exact same list of sponsors, so it's unlikely that they're really competing. Wonder if it's all the same code for both. Think I'll go ask.