Let's Put It To Vote

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Posted by Tom Vanderslice, Student on team #275, ORHS/AST/Hitachi, from Academy of Science and Technology and Hitachi.

Posted on 3/28/99 8:40 PM MST



The way I see it there are two main debates right now
about nationals:

1: 2 Team vs. 3 Team Alliances

2: Allowing/Disallowing Rejections

Why don't we just convince FIRST to send an email to
every team and have every team vote on each item. Give
everyone like a week to respond and if you don't check
your email or respond, too bad, you lose your vote.

At the end of the week they tally the votes and then
decide how it will be at nationals. They could announce
the results or not announce them, either way. I think
keeping the results a secret would almost be more
interesting and prevent more 'pre-alliances'. If teams
don't know until they get there how the alliances are
going to work, then its harder to have the whole thing
set up before you get there.

Any opinions? (ok..dumb question...everyone's got an
opinion :)

Tom
Team 275

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Posted by Cartman, Student on team #254, Cheesy Poofs, from Broadway High.

Posted on 3/28/99 8:55 PM MST


In Reply to: Let's Put It To Vote posted by Tom Vanderslice on 3/28/99 8:40 PM MST:



I'll go along with that, and I'm sure our coach will also. It only seems fair that we get to vote on it, especially since it seems so many teams feel the same way. i vote with Tom, but it to a vote.

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Posted by Dave, Student on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW.

Posted on 3/30/99 7:06 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Let's Put It To Vote posted by Cartman on 3/28/99 8:55 PM MST:



I think voting on it is pointless, considering that we voted on it at Great Lakes at it was almsot uninamious, minus 4 teams. If you want to decline a partnership, tough cookies to the team you declined. Many teams made prior commitments and would have to break them if they could not decline. It also makes things more intresting when teams decline. And judging on how long it took the finals in Great Lakes, it's almost guaranted that they're going to keep that system of choosing 2 partners.

Dave