I was going to write a nice, reasoned, long (there's no way to be concise AND complete about this one) post to this, and after starting the first couple of paragraphs decided not to. It's just not worth it trying to convince anyone of anything, and it's not going to change what happened. I do think I still want to say three things, without long explanation, and leave it at that:
* None of us have perfect information about this or any other situation. I know I don't, and I talked to a bunch of folks. 1538 did what alliance captains have to do; they made a hard decision, based on factors they thought were important.
* None of us can say what would have happened had things been done differently. Maybe if team 10,327 had been picked we would have lost in the quarterfinals instead. Or won Einstein. Or caused the universe to implode due to a rip in the fabric of space-time.
* You probably should have taken a lot of deep breaths before starting this thread, and I probably should have taken more than the two that I did before posting this.
In the end, what happened happened, and a very deserving alliance went from Newton to Einstein. Congratulations to 303, 3476, and 1640. And to all but THREE teams (congrats to them, too) in all of FRC: I guess we all need to just go out & make next year different, right? Or maybe I should say "...make next year different, eh?"
