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Unread 17-03-2003, 19:25
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Originally posted by Ben Mitchell
Thank you.

These petitions really don't solve anything, and are an unproductive waste of time.

If you want something done about it, bring it up at the team forum, or to FIRST directly - complaining here won't help you.
Hi Ben,

Actually that is exactly what I and others did do at the Arizona Regional. One of our engineers and I spoke to Jason Morella and the head referee for 1/2 an hour. They told us that FIRST pays attention to this forum and to bring up the matter here.

What I got is that it is hard for FIRST to make changes based on a few teams, but if 500 teams want something handled it, it will be noticed. So that is what we are doing here.

Personally I do not want a repeat of pre-match agreements between teams at the S. Calif. Regional or at the Championship. Also quite honestly our team is in debt now. We want to go to the championships but wouldn't go through the massive effort to get the money if this isn't resolved. We didn't go to Arizona for a 4 team cooperative competition, and we went through quite a lot to try to sort it out.

The truth is, this issue just needs to be a matter of what is expected by FIRST without a huge rule change or anything of that nature. However that has not occurred so I am doing what FIRST told us to do--bringing it to this forum.
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