[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

I want to say thanks to Teams #114 and #1097 for playing with us at the San Jose Regional. You guys did a great job.

As one of the main programmers, I feel personally responsible for the software bug that had our robot sitting frozen in its starting position for the first 90 seconds of our final match.

I cannot apologize enough.

I like the alliance concept, but there is a dark side to it as well. Specifically, when your team fails to deliver, you feel 3 times as bad because you let down not only your own team, but 2 additional teams that were counting on you.

Both teams #114 and #1097 were very gracious about the defeat, but I can imagine that they were very let down by the experience.

I hope that the Cosmic Karma will eventually balance all accounts.

Until then, please accept my thanks for picking us and my regrets for not coming through for you.

Joe J.

Don't hold yourself to feeling bad about this. I accounted for many mistakes with my team, including just about the exact same error you made here, I also hooked up the wrong radio so our robot malfunctioned, and I have held myself responsible for these mistakes. However, every team makes mistakes and everyone on every team makes a mistake. And even though you made one error, I am sure that you have given much more to your team to counterbalance what happened in this one match.