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Originally Posted by Chris is me
I'm really confused why "it's dope" somehow shows a profound misunderstanding of FIRST. Can you elaborate?
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Definitions of dope on the Web:
pot: street names for marijuana
take drugs to improve one's athletic performance
dumbbell: an ignorant or foolish person
add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties; "The resistors have been doped"
cola: carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
give a narcotic to; "The athletes were dope by the coach before the race"
slang terms for inside information; "is that the straight dope?"
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Yeah, I realize that it was meant to mean "cool/good", but I don't think it was the right word. It also showed that he didn't really know anything about the game at all.
To add to things I didn't like was referees not calling penalties on teams because they "didn't know the rules". In Boston, a team was repeatedly knocking tubes out of our gripper, and taking them. The head ref refused to call them, because they A: Didn't posses the tubes for more than one second
B: Something to do with them not knowing the rules
The team came over to us and apologized later, but it made us lose the match, and drop quite long way in seeding. Speaking of that, sometimes a red card isn't a good enough reparation. When you lose a match due to someone jostling you during the endgame, they get a red card, and you lose the match. You still drop just as far as you would have had they not gotten the red card. I don't think there is any way to avoid it, but hey, we're FIRST, we can think of ways to innovate!