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Re: Mt. Olive 2014 Footage and Match Length Issue

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Originally Posted by BrendanB View Post
Lastly, FIRST needs to start taking this stuff more seriously and maybe they are just we haven't heard anything. I think its the latter part that bothers me the most because teams who attended Mt. Olive haven't heard a word from HQ ...
This is what I don't understand.

FIRST is collectively an organization of tens of thousands of the smartest people in the world.

Where is the logic in hiding the problems, sweeping them under the rug, in an effort to keep up appearances? If HQ were more transparent about problems as they happen, more eyes attached to brilliant minds get on the problem, and an optimal solution can be found much more quickly.

When problems are kept from view, they fester, until someone notices (again, because we're all smart people), and says something. When that happens, we end up with threads like this one.

I realize that in this case, there is little to be done that isn't already being done, but in many cases, there are things that can still be done, and I believe a culture of admitting problems where they exist would lead to a better program as a whole.
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