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Originally Posted by Wing
There is a similar phenomenon down here in the Atlanta are with Team 2415 and their sweeping of regionals lately. I'm going to say it right now: They earned every single bit of the money They Raised, every single regional victory The Students won through intelligence, strategy, and skill, and they deserve all of the praise they get.
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I hope 1002 doesnt screw 2415 over at the bridge considering i was instrumental in getting 1002 2 of their RCAs and 2 of their EIs and served as their president for 2 years... and then started 2415 when i was a belligerent freshman in college. I would be a little upset about that and would probably call you some mean names.
But no worries, in like 9 years im gonna throw fat stacks at a team and collect awesome mentors to help develop super children to dominate the world at FRC.
But seriously guys, this is HS robotics. Lets all cool out a little. These are 15 year old hormonally charged kids. Most of these kids Pre-pubescents with no understanding of a lot of the issues at hand. Hopefully this issue can be self goverened without some ridiculous justice league GDC enforcement that other have suggested on here.
I am confident that the spirit of FIRST (whatever that means these days, is it trademarked yet?) will rectify this situation through education and hard work. No need to berate young children. There is a big difference in yelling and mentoring (although the lines are often blurred in the 2415 shop lolz jk). And when I say mentoring, i mean life mentoring. Like not only teaching the kids how to do things in the shop, but how to act and conduct themselves even when things are going wrong. DUH!!!
And to be honest, the teams that are being ostracized could probably take a step back and look at how to rectify their image. Images dont just come from nowhere and there is always a way to fix a misconception (There are a few big name teams that i thought were donkey butts for a while at comp till i actually got to sit down and hang with them).
Forgive me if this doesnt make sense as i have been studying for the past 15 straight hours, but in summation:
1) You spend THOUSANDS of dollars for less than 30 minutes on the competition field. spend that time showing the world what you have, not trying to take away from what others do have.
2) If you think your public image is bad, do something about it to show others that it isnt.
3) And hey, lets all try and whine a little less.
p.s. DONT YOU GET MY YOU GRAMMAR NAZIS coughandrewschreibercough
p.p.s. KONY 2012 - do it for the kids (DIFTK)
p.p.p.s. Laura Samrak (or however you spell your username), you are a phenomenal troll. Almost as good as poohbear.