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Kyle J. Fender
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Re: 2013 Greater Toronto East Regional

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Originally Posted by Atonomous View Post
The alliance pick by 2056 to team up with 1114 was boring, and I for one though that this early in the game they would have chosen to play against each other to gain experience and game play knowledge instead of the "steam roller" dominance that you chose. Shame on you both for just grabbing yet another regional win. That is not what I would expect of the high calibre teams that you are. As far as I am concerned, it was a hollow meaningless regional win.

Let me explain....Both teams knew that one of them was going to win this regional, this is a given. Neither of them needed the win to qualify for worlds. It could have been a mutual learning experience that both of them missed. Instead they chose the safe route. Flame on, my heat shields are up and ready.
I'm just going to put this here, for my first response to that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9kpTvm6CYA

My secondary response:
I don't care whether a team has a lock already on a Championships spot already, or if they even had a automatic spot onto Einstein even; I would NEVER want them to go less than their 100%. It's a disservice to the men & women that organized & volunteered at the event, the sponsors who helped pay for the event, the spectators, the students competing, and themselves as a team/community. Your response is the evidence of wussification (reference to Christopher Titus, look him up) in a generation. You are never entitled to success. You must WORK FOR IT. If you want to change the competition dynamic, as Billfred said: outrank them.

It disheartens me every time to see these kinds of posts; we should be praising excellence from teams like 1114 & 2056, and emulating it; not invalidating it. There's a reason 1114 won the Championship Chairman's Award; they are a model, nay, the model for FIRST. I have tried to follow their standards through my years in FIRST after losing to them in 2009 at Championships during Division Elims, and it's worked out for me pretty well. Inaugral FRC Dean's List winner, starting my own robotics program, working for GeorgiaFIRST; I'm better off because I learned from them, not because I thought to bring them down in others' eyes (which I couldn't honestly, if I ever wanted to).

Final note: maybe you should watch this as well. It's their 2012 CCA video; it was one of my main inspirations in starting my robotics program later in 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFwz3FZqiuc
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