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Originally Posted by StAxis
I think the thing that people need to remember is that the winning alliance had comm problems as well, they affected everyone. As someone who was really pulling for 180, I freaked out when they dropped comms in the last game till just the last couple seconds.
While I wish that the matches would have been played out with all robots moving, I still think that the way 180, 25, and 16 played together was brilliant and they deserved the win. Now as for IRI, I think that replaying would be a bad idea, there is always luck involved wether or not comms are dropped and now with time to improve the robot I think that by then it wouldn't even be the same. I think that we should just learn that this is something we need to make sure doesn't happen in the future. What's done is done, every team played their heart out and while it is terrible that some people will never know if comm issues got them out, at the end of the day circumstances still provided for the winner. They made it to the finals and they won, a rematch would just be like trying to strip them of the crown that they fought hard for and I don't think that is right. I like the idea of inviting all of those teams back to worlds next year, but the results should be left as they are regardless of the other factors that poured into it.
All that being said I hope FIRST is going to look into finding a better comm system for 2013 and onward so that disconnects are less likely to happen anywhere from einstien to practice matches.
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A lot of people are saying 16, 25, and 180 deserved to win anyway, but can anyone say that the other 3 alliances deserved to lose? Not at all, the winners were decided by a coin flip, and if it any of the other alliances were lucky enough, they would have won too under the circumstances. And if none of the alliances deserved to lose, did any alliance deserve to win outright? For me it was a tainted win, because no matter how I look at it I will still feel bad for the other alliances.