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Originally Posted by indieFan

With all of the scoring issues that have come up in the first week, I just want to remind everyone to remember why you participate in FIRST.

Is it a disappointment when something isn't scored correctly and causes a team not to advance? Absolutely.

Is it a tragedy when something isn't scored correctly and causes a team not to advance? Absolutely not.

If you find yourself extremely upset, frustrated, angry, or any other term of emotion, please stop and ask yourself why you participate in FIRST. Was it to win a competition? Was it to educate others? Was it to inspire the next generation? This will help put the issues in perspective.

Additionally, if you have an issue with how things are currently going with scoring and/or fouls, etc, rather than just posting the issue, please try to post a possible resolution to prevent it again.

As mentors and teachers, we have to remember that we are modeling behavior that we want the students to pick up on. Is posting multiple times about something not going our way modeling the behavior we want them to learn?

Just some food for thought,
indieFan

I agree--word choice is important.

The Titanic was a tragedy. The Tenerife Airport Disaster was a tragedy. Challenger space shuttle, JAL flight 123-- to compare these things with a scoring error in a competition is to defame the lives lost and/or ruined by them.

I will say that the refs do need to get some kinks worked out. A few times at Mount Olive, the refs missed defense crossings. I agree that this negatively impacted the events. I was frustrated, my teammates were frustrated, my alliance partners were frustrated.

But nobody died. Nobody was injured. No planes crashed, no space shuttles exploded, and no ships sank. If you are disappointed in the results of an event due to ref mistakes, shake it off, let it go, and work to make sure it doesn't happen again.