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fixing matches
I am a sponsor and mentor for team 271. some members of my team started to be involved in a match fix in Annapolis for whatever reasons they considered justifiable and i stopped it. I do not know how the "mentors" on the other teams qualify their decisions, however i consider this nothing more than cheating. i have never seen anything from usfirst which suggested or implied that coming up with strategies to increase scores by taking a dump on the motives for scoring was something that usfirst would consider intelligent, resourceful engineering and planning.
My team is in the regional on Long Island this week. I have posted a letter to usfirst asking for a posted statement as to whether they accept or reject rigged game agreements. I have also asked that it be a specific stated ruling at the coming regional game when the team players gather for the game regulations. I am sure it will be addressed, but if it is not, i will ask the question in a very loud voice.
I understand to some degree that the students go through an understanding/learning process as they grow up. I do not understand the decisions of the mentors and/or teachers involved. The decisions are nothing more than the philosophy of ENRON. The results are the destruction of the dream for intellectual and analytical growth that USFIRST has created.
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