IAUVC Day 4 - Final Testing Day

It's almost 9PST and I'm standing here blogging pool (amazingly large dive tank?)-side. Our arrival time was pushed up one hour this morning to get teams here in time for some live coverage from a local San Diego TV station.
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Yeh, definitely got up at 5 AM.

Mike and I walked into the command/al queda room to find no robot. Mike said, "surely it isn't in the pool now ... " Sure enough, Frankie/Jim/Sterling were at the pool, and had been all night testing.

We buttoned up the robot and got onsite around 6 AM. The TV guy wanted to show our robot on TV so we hoisted it up in the air and were on live TV. We're trying to get a copy of the tape. Your's truely was the PR guy and did an awesome job pimping the robot to an uneducated CA audience.

HOWEVER, After about 2 hrs, this guy is getting aggravating. He keeps wanting to show the robot during commercial breaks and it's interrupting our testing.

We've got a TON of work to do and need as much uninterrupted time as possible.

Oh, and as of 9AM  MIT and Cornell haven't showed up today. They've won first places in previous years, so if they're having trouble this could be a big break for the rest of us.