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Re: Einstein 2012
It's too bad that Einstein came down to this. I don't know the details of the problem, but if FIRST addresses nothing else this off-season, they need to address comm problems on the field. This simply cannot happen on the biggest stage, or any lower stage for that matter. It's disappointing in a sense for the teams that won to know that even though they were very deserving champions, there will be some form of an asterisk next to their championship title. It's also disappointing for the teams that lost on Einstein because they will never know exactly what could have happened if they were given a fair chance, with all the robots moving, to win. It's very possible that the winning alliance would have won anyway, regardless of comm issues since everyone was suffering from them. They are very deserving, and I congratulate them on what they were able to do. The Einstein finals were shaping up to be epic. We had a rookie appear on Einstein, 1114 and 2056 were allied together. Hall of fame team 16 was going for their first championship, along side 25 who already had a title to their name. Pink, arguably the best team never to win a championship, was battling to finally take home the hardware with 987 who had beat them on Einstein in 2007 (feels like yesterday). I believe 118 was making their first trip to Einstein along side 548, who was right in the middle of playing their best competition ever to date. It's really a shame, and I hope FIRST addresses this very soon. Something needs to be done about the comm issues. It's been a big problem for teams at all levels of competition, and it simply cannot happen again. We will never know quite how epic these finals could have been, but it will go down in history as yet another FIRST championship, and hopefully successes of next year will overshadow everything that went wrong this year.
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