[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by EricH

Ian, I'll be editing that part about "hint" out of my original post. I apologize if anyone took that the wrong way. I just tend to get rather irritated about communication breakdowns--the more critical the communicated information, the more irritated I get.

Eric- I can appreciate what you are trying to accomplish. I agree communication is absolutely critical in almost every aspect of life. It too, irritates me, as it often leads to messy situations that can be avoided.

That being said, I don't have much knowledge of MAR. What I do know is from being in touch with my old teammates on MORT and seeing the few posts about it here on CD. I can understand how some people in the MAR region may be irritated if information was not communicated to them (if indeed, it was not brought to their attention). With all that said, I am not 'in the loop' so to speak. I don't know what was done by the MAR committee to reach out to teams, and I'm not going to speculate as to what did, or didn't occur. To me, just as bad as non-communication is over-communication. I personally don't see much constructive discussion in offering somewhat arbitrary examples of miscommunication.

I think Akash did the right thing and brought up the question to a body of people that could help (albeit he may have been able to say it a littttttle bit nicer ). He got an answer from a fellow FIRSTer, and now assumingly, he will have the communication channel he desired. Let's just leave it at that, especially if we have no direct view into what is happening in MAR. Otherwise, it's just extra discussion to cloud the clear messages people are looking for.

-Brando