[Rick]

ok everybody, i've been quiet too long. Im gonna try to be as nice as possible.

I understand some things that went wrong could not be unavoided. Things like missing cables, scoring system mess ups, etc. It happens and is understandable.

What is NOT understandable is how uneducated the refs were. A few never even saw a first event, and it showed.

The whole finals drama that occured should not have happened. The wedge has been there since the first day at BAE. New England teams should now this by now. The wedge is there to take away a pushing surface. It is also there to remove teams from the HDPE. If a team can make a device to latch on to the top, we can have something to take them off (thanks Andy).

Now after I flipped over Choas then DE-flipped them should have shown everyone it was not my intention to flip teams over. Only 2 other teams ended up on their backs because of us. Team 95 flipped onto 88 right after autonomous because of us but the wedge wasnt even down. 501 also went over, but we were trying to get onto the top of the ramp and they were in the way...sorry guys.

But what really got me mad was the fact that we had to change our robot design before the last match. According to the head ref our wedge design was not "Graciously Professional". Whatever that means. A couple teams complain and now we need to spend half an hour putting lexan where that wedge was.

BUT WHAT REALLY GOT ME ANGRY was some guy from 88. He was an adult who had the nerve to come to me and my drive team and start yelling at us. Now you can say this post isnt gracious, but what that guy did was uncalled for. He said we were purposefully damaging other teams when all we were doing was playing the game.

So even without a wedge we won the whole thing. So just to spite some of you jealous poeple we're adding another wegde on our "piece of blank" (according to what that guy said. Think before you talk next time guy)

Thats my gripes with Ralley and Im sorry to say because of this bad experince we wont be coming to ralley ever again.

Go ahead and shut this post down brandon i got my 2 cents in.