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Yahoo! Group was worse than useless...
The way that FIRST is treating the Yahoo! group makes the whole thing worse than useless.
Forget that it took them forever to make a clear ruling, now we discover that even when they DID make a clear ruling, it was really not final in any sense.
Examples:
Batteries, which we are all familiar with.
Tethers, again, which we are all familiar with, but it is worth pointing out that measuring tapes were allowed as legal -- one of the few examples given on the Yahoo! site that was definitely an entanglement threat and NOT legal.
Even shipping: After being asked if some sort of exception was going to be allowed for teams that had back to back regionals and being told VERY CLEARLY that no exceptions would be allowed, it turns out that exceptions ARE being made -- this after a number of teams have made EXPENSIVE efforts to live within the letter of the law as handed down from Mt. Yahoo!
The list goes on...
I think FIRST should really think long and hard about the rest of the season, and especially about next season.
This is not a environment good for growing gracious professionalism...
Joe J.
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