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Originally posted by Joe Ross
A lot of people have been referring directly and indirectly to team 698, the #1 seed at Arizona. Every single one of those posts has been negative. However, looking through the thread recapping the Arizona regional I find that the same team that is being derided in this thread won team 294's gracious professionalism award, as voted by other teams.
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They also won a special judge's award for what I remember as everything they did for the regional helping people out, like helping set up the field.
Love Jason Morrella and Chris from Beach Bots take on all this.
As always, FIRST reflects life. I've certainly been in a position like 698, being slammed for something while having accomplished a lot of good things that are ignored - whether at work or other accomplishments in years past.
Often what happened when I was being slammed unfairly for many many months, I weathered the storm, and my behavior during the storm helped the people who were nearly swayed by the "sky is falling people", and the sky is falling people went away or lost their credibility, and my accomplishments didn't.
Hang in there 698. When we knew on Friday that your team won cuz it was the only team nominated 3 times for a variety of gracious professionalism incidents, I was casually getting to know members of your team. I was always very impressed. Our team is so looking forward to spending more time with you in LA. Rock on!