Re: You Cannot Graciously Accept
 

If you are coming to regionals where 2502 is coming in '10, you are in for a little fun exercise. :)

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118 did a excellent job when accepting 488's invite as the #6 alliance on Archimedes last weekend. The representative incorporated the lyrics from Dope's - You Spin Me Round into his acceptance. It was well done.... as 118's unique alliance acceptances are

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I accept your gracious offer, and encourage everyone to also get back to work on their total FIRST experience; part of which is creating machinery. ;)

Yes - It is.

Ask any potential employer if they prefer to hire people who know English well enough to spot the flaws in saying that one "Graciously accepts", or if they don't care (in this sense) about clear communication.

I predict the vast majority will, and do, care.

Blake

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Did anyone else notice that Paul Gudonis 'graciously accepted' the offer to sell the patents and trademarks to FIRST? Reminded me of this thread :]

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Indeed I did. I thought it made him sound like he felt he was doing the other party a tremendous favor by doing the "buy it for a dollar" transaction.

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In 2008 (07 FTC season), I accepted with a bit of an embarassing "Well, I have no idea why you want to pick us, but I graciously accept".

Anyhow, I'm planning on putting "I graciously accept" on whatever college I decide to attend's letter.

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I told our student that was going down for alliance selection to say, "Well, you may not be 46, but we'd still love to play with you." Sadly, he never got the chance to say it.

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At Monty Madness this will be our acceptance if chosen or if we are choosing.
In reference to Brawndo commercials:

"This alliance is blasting off like a dinosaur riding a rocketship and we want youuuuu to be our co pilot!!!!!"

Acceptance: "This alliance is going to be like shaving your chest with a lawnmower!! We accept!!!!"

Oh yea, we're weird.

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At the CT Regional, after a "gracious" acceptance and a "grateful" acceptance, team 1902 pranced and twirled across the field as a lead-in to their "graceful" acceptance. (:

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Well can you graciously decline? I know it's certainly better than saying "That's Lunacy!" and staying in your position on the field, although not GP at all I would find it hillarious, but I would never consider actually doing it.

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You can respectfully decline.

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To graciously decline could be an insult...

If you are applying "gracious" to yourself, it's kind of a misuse of the word. See the earlier portion of the thread. Now, you decline. You're saying, "Because we feel sorry for you, no we won't play with you." It's almost a double insult.

Usually, declines are done as either "We respectfully decline" or "We decline".

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We tried to convince the student who went to accept at Kettering to just walk up and hug whoever asked us, and then stand next to them without saying anything. She didn't do it, unfortunately. My two favorite acceptances from our past competitions have been:

"We will gladly be assimilated into your collective."
and
"We'd gladly drink to that." Followed by handing the alliance captain a can of mountain dew.

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I say we say it in binary.
Yes: 0111100101100101011100110000110100001010
Accept: 01100001011000110110001101100101011100000111010000 00110100001010

No: 0110111001101111
Deny: 01100100011001010110111001111001

and so on

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i remember back in the days, it was "team XXXX, insert sponsors*, graciously accept." It was out of respect to the sponsors.


For those in archimedes at championships, i made our captain do that...WE ARE BRINGING IT BACK