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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
What really, really, really grinds my gears is the total hypocrisy of the situation. We have video of missed assists in many of our matches. Non-calls and phantom calls that make absolutely no sense when watching the replay. Bizarre field faults involving hot goals, pedestals, and even transitioning the whole field into teleop 1.5 seconds after the start of autonomous (!). In these situations, we could do nothing but pound sand or get a replay (in the case of the latter issue). Why the double standard when a high school student makes an honest mistake?
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Exactly. The under pressure, stressed out high school students (and the robots they build) should never be held to a higher standard than FIRST's field, which is developed by paid professionals. It's just backward. I can't see any positive reason to make the decision that was made, and I know if I made that honest little mistake when I was in high school, and FIRST HQ responded the way they did, I would have left the program. There is no way that the kid, or any person on his team is feeling at all inspired. How do you explain this to your sponsor? I know that sponsors shouldn't care about a teams performance, but the reality is that some do. What mentor wants to be part of a program where you spend tens of thousands of dollars to compete in a poorly thought out game (the whole dead ball thing), with a field that doesn't work, and a set of unenforceable rules, in which you've just been disqualified because one high school kid made a little mistake?
This is really, really bad.