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Originally Posted by SudoSammich
I once again sincerely apologize if I made it sound like I felt the judging or inspection teams were at fault in this matter, that is why I in fact added the note about their excellent work. I personally approached the volunteer I mentioned afterwards to apologize for some of my team's behavior and compliment the job he and other members of the staff had done. I have nothing but respect for people who are willing to give up their time to make this event function and realize that though mistakes were made, that is the nature of the event. I in no way find fault with the people who made this event possible or anyone else in particular; this was merely a series of unfortunate events as I had stated.
As for our team's intentions in going to the event, we were in no way intending to make the inspectors jobs more difficult and we did not believe at the time that our bumpers were illegal. I am part of the programming subteam on our team, so I am not sure who made the call that our bumpers were legal, but I can assure you that knowing the mentors who make our team run, they would never do something they knew was illegal or questioned the legality of. It was a mistake, but I can assure you that it was not intentional. Further, my team's coach did bring it up (though to the exact person I am unsure, it occurred before I got there on Thursday morning) very early and we were told that there was no issue by an inspector at the event.
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As I stated, I was sure that your team didn't intentionally break the rules. You're a low number team and have been around the FIRST community and have been around for quite a while. I also didn't mean your team was trying to make our job difficult. That was in reference to the few teams who insisted on arguing rules. Don't worry, no offense taken about the inspector comments.
There has been a lot of hostility towards the SBPLI Regional these past two days. I think everyone need to just relax a little bit...this is about the fun and learning after all.