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Re: Being Proactive About Paper Airplanes on Einstein

I'll just add to this with my own personal experience from this weekend.

There were several times throughout our Einstein run where we were legitmately concerned an airplane would find it's way onto the field and cause a field fault in one of those matches we were working to incredibly hard to win. Having something like a paper airplane, only thrown for the sole reason of personal selfish entertainment from that random individual, potentially impact such a monumentally important moment of ours was terrifying. There were airplanes making their way to the scorers tables and over the field several times.

I'm relaying this in hope that the next time anyone has a compusion to throw a paper airplane from the stands in the future they first think about how they would feel if their team was fortunate enough to be playing on the field and a random airplane thrown from the stands caused a field fault that costed your alliance a critical win while trying to win a world championship. That feeling should immediately cause you to unfold that airplane, place that piece of paper back in whatever place you took it from, and then have that initial compulsion transition to one of trying to persuade anyone around you from throwing anything, as well.

Thank you.
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