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Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher
I feel weird conversing with you about this, but.....
I dont know, I feel that by looking at past precedent the balls are what teams usually buy in large quantities, no matter how much of the field they build. It's easier to train HPs that way...if one is broken there are some readily available...they get stolen/lost along the way...it's an easy and compact presentation tool....out of any piece on the field the balls are the most important.
But hey, it happens. Next year it'll be something else that goes awry  |
All your points are absolutely correct. At the beginning of the process, one person at FIRST knew that each team would be ordering 20+ small balls. But through multiple communications links between that person and the end of the manufacturing process, someone dropped the ball (Ha! I crack me up! I have been waiting for three days to use that one!), and the message just didn't get all the way through the system.
They will figure a way out of this one, primarily because there is no choice - they have to fix it or the whole season goes bust. But I would implore everyone to remain as patient and understanding as possible. The staff at FIRST is working every bit as hard as the teams are to make the season work, and trying like mad to keep everything going when several of the problems involve third parties that are beyond their control. The simple reality is that this sort of stuff happens, and we all have to figure out how to survive it and keep moving. This is not an effort to excuse it, but to at least understand how we got here.
You are also correct that there will be problems next year (and every following year), it is just the nature of endeavors like this that try something completely new each year. Not everything will get completely worked out. But just as in past years, the teams will overcome it and make the best of it.
But in the mean time, I want to start a pool on what goes wrong next year. I am betting that someone forgets to actually make the field, and we end up with no where to put the inflatable clowns...
-dave