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Re: Einstein 2012

All controversy aside, congratulations to the new world champion, 16/25/180, The Raider Spam Squad (I toyed with Baxter Spam-Botics, but it doesn't sound quite as nice).

And a round of applause to 233/987/207. They were great matches (complications aside). 1126 has a soft spot in our hearts for PINK. We had the honor of teaming with 233 at IRI last year, and got to work with an amazing team (for a brief time, but nevertheless). 233, like ourselves, is one of the teams considered one of the best to have never won the world championship (not saying we're anywhere near the level PINK is. Not even close). PINK is one of my favorite team, they always build great robots, and we hope they don't need to wait too much longer to win the big one we all know they deserve.

Personally, I was hoping the 2056/1114/4334 alliance would take the gold home, but complications obviously prevented that.

I feel there is an unnecessary amount of backlash towards FIRST. One of the major selling points of FIRST is that we're every bit as fun and competitive as a sporting event, but we all conduct ourselves in a professional manner. Right now, that's not what I'm seeing. Yes, the complications on Einstein are disappointing. We all want to see the best of the best square off on Einstein and put on some great matches. Yes, I'd like to know what happened. But a lot of people seem to be crucifying FIRST for field issue when no one really knows what happened.

What a friend of mine hypothesized was that the targeting systems and such on the robots sucked up too much bandwidth from the FMS, and the easiest way to relive that pressure was to shut robots off for a while. We experiences a similar problem at Finger Lakes, and every team was asked to lower the Frames per Second of their camera. While I'm not sure if that's what happened, and I know I'm not really well versed in how the FMS operates, it seems like a logical idea, and certainly proves that maybe it wasn't JUST the field that was the problem.

What I'm getting at is, maybe it's a little premature to be seeking a pound of flesh from FIRST when we don't know the whole story. Maybe it was the robots, maybe it was the field, maybe it was the robot's interaction with the field. I suggest we wait and see what FIRST says on the matter, if they say anything. Until then, we're largely jumping to conclusions.
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