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Re: 2013 Greater Toronto East Regional
I'm not going to do the popular thing on Chief Delphi and take my pound of flesh out on this guy, so I will just say three things:


1. Why can't this ever be a normal thread? It is the same tired shtick every year. You say who's coming, you loosely catalog the event's happenings, you congratulate the teams, and move on. Instead, it's this all-out verbal war that has been fought on this site so many times it makes me sick.

2. I really want to be on the same field as some of these teams one day. I want to rise up above the rest, because pulling them down is pointless. If I was ever on a team that intentionally sandbagged an event, I couldn't be with them anymore. If I played on a field against teams who were sandbagging it, I wouldn't ever really win that match, would I?

3. If I am jealous of anything, I'm jealous of the quality of the average team that shows up to GTRE/W/Waterloo because 1114 and 2056 have pushed their whole country to step it up. 610 is going to have a battle in Waterloo after they tore up BAE, and I love it. That's what I want. I don't want to win all the time, I want my state to have a killer reputation for robotics instead of a killer reputation for DC Beltway construction, deficient bridges, and bay cleanups.