[Jared Russell]

Like I said in my previous post, this was a very confusing situation for all involved. It is important to separate facts from conjecture.

While several people have reported that our team (and others) were threatened for protesting the decision, I want to make it clear that Team 254 did NOT experience anything of the sort. We are confident that no representative of FIRST would ever say something like this.

Every other detail in this thread was observed firsthand by those involved, but to reiterate, Team 254 was never threatened by anyone. I would guess that a volunteer or competitor speculated that this was the case and unfortunately that rumor grew legs.