[Covey41]

I am having a hard time feeling sorry for most of you, from the beginning the word "touching" was in the rules. As Dean Said we are engineers and not lawyers. We are upset that we just superficially glanced at the rules, and not making sure that we were understanding what we read. We like everyone Else assumed that just being over the loading zone was good enough, we were wrong!

Am I going to complain? No.

"I" did not completely read the rule. "I" did not take the time to completely understand what I was reading. Am "I" going to whine at FIRST, No!

Who do "I" blame, ME!

Folks this is the rule, LIVE WITH IT!

FIRST gave us away to live with it, they very well could have said "tough"!

Now FIRST is not about building a robot, it is about inspiring students into technology fields. It is about dealing with real world scenarios. Let's not teach our students that it is OK to whine till someone changes thing to the way we want them.

Erin,

Our team was at UTC. I counted 7 Ref's, 1 more than FIRST asks for at regionals. How can you say you were understaffed. You could say that they needed more Ref's, but maybe you should have a better idea of what is going on before you give an opinion.

For what is worth that is my 2 cents. (I know it's not worth that much.)