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Re: Ungracious and unprofessional...
A percentage of these "flippings" are intentional. I know because we were the subject to one such attempt. We were in the middle of a qualifying match when another robot strolled next to us and lifted a 3 foot arm under our robot, flipping us forward. I thought it was just an akward collission until after the match when i was shown video footage as well as digital pictures of this arm going under our robot, then raising in an attempt to flip us (i say attempt because we have a phenomenal arm operator who was able use the arm and a mobil goal to save us). I am very curious as to what other function this arm serves and intend on checking things out at our next regional. i also plan on checking to see if this team has treated other teams in this way. if they have, i intend on conforonting the referees about it. this behaviour is very unFIRST. Perhaps the team does not realize this, as many teams are fairly new and dont have the "FIRST thing" figured out yet. I do however hope that they will realize that their actions are hurtful, and somewhat resented.
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Proud Alumni of Team 66
2005 Great Lakes Regional Champions with Team 67 (HOT) and Team 68 (Truck Town Thunder).
2005 West Michigan Regional Champions with team 107 (Holland Christian High School) and Team 93 (New Apple Corps)
2002 National Champions
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