[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

It's one thing to get them to understand these concepts when the challenges are borne out of a relatively pure competition experience, when the mistakes and failure are theirs to own and to live up to, to learn form. When excessive challenges are thrown in their path that are out of their control, when failure and struggle is made more likely by a flawed COMPETITION SYSTEM that should be designed such that it works so well it is invisible but instead randomly and frequently penalizes teams for no just reason, that is something I don't feel students should have to cope with at an event.

It is natural to expect some level of "built-in" unfairness at a competition, as no system is perfect, but NOTHING like the sustained assault of blar that has been levied against teams this season. It is natural for teams to expect and require corrective action from the governing body to restore the competitive system to some semblance of sanity.

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This

I have seen refs this year that I know are some of the best in the biz and whom I have nothing but respect for struggle with this game. I love the basic structure of the game, the auton that anyone can do but still gives better teams a challenge, and the lack of an end game but the refs were totally thrown under the bus.