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Originally Posted by SciBorg Dave
I just watch the match and then read the post. I think that was a poor lesson learned for $. I do not think the match was something to be proud of.
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On the contrary this has been an extremely useful lesson learned and an incredible experience and I bet there are many people reading who are not posting who are pondering what they would do. I am defending my team's decision and trying to clarify why both alliances did what they did because I think it was incredibly bold to do this knowing how they could get criticized in the FIRST community. Obviously this is a very polarizing issue. It is interesting to see how people pass judgement on others. We are truly a social species. We were proud of the match for what is was trying to achieve, no regrets. I stand by my team's and both the alliances decision. No one was hurt, no one was cheated, all parties and the audience were in agreement. For that time and that place it was the thing to do. It probably will not happen at the championships, but I think its great that this happened here in AZ to have this dialog before Championships. I will point out however that at the finals last year in the last matches, it became who could outscore each other game with little or no defense on any robot, especially 610 who had free reign of the field. They basically did what we did without the prearrangement. Yes there was no money involved in their game, but we, unfortunately, can't run away from that no matter how much we say the challenge was not taken up for the money. It was always there the whole tournament and no one went for it. It really was the challenge.