Robot basketball invades The Burrow
By Chuck King
You can have your Final Four. I'm not a big fan of the teams, anyway.
I've found my new favorite sport: Robot Basketball.
High schoolers built a bunch of robots for a competition that was held in The Burrow.
I stopped by court on Saturday between the end of spring football practice and the start of the baseball game. I'm telling you, I've never seen The Burrow quite like this. It was equal parts sporting event and Star Trek convention. What a scene. There was a team called Spam. The team from Jupiter was called Mars. I do not know why. Several ninja's tried to dance with me. Again, I do not know why.
The official name of the event was the FIRST Robotic Competition. Take a look at the video. There really is some amazing stuff in there.
What stood out the most was how into the action the fans were. Each team had its own support section, decked out in colors, capes, masks or robot gear. And there was a gorilla.
Honestly – one of the wildest events I've seen in that building. Next year the student government should try to give away robot t-shirts.
I spent the remainder of the day wandering around with that Saturday Night Live Sam Warterston Robot Insurance skit in my head.
Remember: persons denying the existence of robots may be robots themselves. Truer fake words may have never been published.