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Unread 10-03-2003, 17:54
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FRC #1507 (The Warlocks)
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Hey all. I am one of the drivers for team 378. There seems to be a lot of confusion about what really happened in the match in question. This I think was partically cleared up by one of our alliance partneers in an earlier post. As they said what happened was originally the FIRST officals had our driver stations programmed with the wrong teams. In the first match of the round team 835 was in A1 and my team 378 were in A2. That match was fine, everything worked how it was supposed to. In the second match the first mistake was done by FIRST themselves. In position A1 they had 835 when it should have been team 85 the 3rd team in our alliance and we were in A2. They had to reprogram the drivers station. When they did the put 378 in A1 and 85 in A2. They didn't give us time to switch our human players. As an alliance the 3 of us planned to have 85 not enable during autonomous since they didn't have a autonomous that did nothing and they wanted us to the hill first. Once we pointed out what had happened FIRST granted the replay since most of the confusion was their own fault. With the replay the right robots were enabled and the rest is history. Sorry if this seems unfair to some, but for us to be shifted around like that right before we were to drive wasn't right either. I think the dicision FIRST made was right in the long run and I would hope that if faced with this same situation the officials would make the same dicision. Thanks for the time and I hope this clears up the problem.
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2003 "Most Feared Robot" and "Best Autonomous Function" from team 1064.
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