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Originally posted by BFireball8
First of all, you are a poor sport Ricksta, and you dont symbolize the true meaning and intent of FIRST. You always try to pick fights and then hide behind your scapegoat excuse which is denying your intent. It was very clear that your teams intent for the "entanglement match" was to cause damage, by REPEATABLY running over the tape measure to try to cause it to break. A tape measure isnt some flimsy device that falls and breaks off, it requires some effort and force. So its team's 121 fault for having it break off and getting entangled.
The head ref Ken Stafford is also a better referee and part of FIRST then you will ever be, so you have no right saying he sucked and made bad calls. If you are looking for the man who best represents the FIRST spirit, it is him. Maybe you should talk to him so some of it will "rub off" on you. All of his calls were made in justly and in the spirit of FIRST, so you'll have to find some one else to blame. (Im sure that wont be too hard)
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BFireball8 don't you think that your post is a little too harsh. Rick is a unique person, which sometimes writes something he doesn't mean. His post might be a little too "candid," but I don't consider it to be inappropriate.
Your statement that we intended to cause damage is completely false. We never meant to get entangled. The only thing we were trying to do was to block Rage’s tether. Since I was behind the glass that match, to the best of my recollection what happened:
1. We saw Rage and position, and stood ready to block there tape measure
2. The first time they launched their tether we blocked it, and they retracted it
3. The second time they launched it we went to block it, but this time our robot didn't move forward, then our driver jerked back and forth figuring that it was the carpet or something
4. Then we released the goal figuring it was that. (Than 999 pushed it into Rage's end zone)
5. In trying to get home, we found that the bot was very jerky, and found it a real struggle to get it home.
6. First I thought a motor went dead, or a wheel fell off, but then I saw the hand sticking out of wheel.
I have this on video and digitized if anybody doesn't believe me.
Also I have to say that Rick was not to disparage Ken in any way. I think you completely misunderstood his intentions. He was merely disagreeing with a call not only he made but other refs. Ken and others discussed the match for several minutes during the lunch break, and ultimately had to reach a settlement to move on. Tape measures were organdy banned because of reasons like this. That is why DQ's are so shady, and really depend if the refs personal opinion. Ultimately, Ken had to make a non-bias decision, which he knew it could or could not be right.