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Originally Posted by oneangrydwarf
As i sit in my room, with a bad cold and a sore throat, and read these forums, I am stunned by the actions of some of my peers and my fellow FIRST participants. When did these forums go from a source of knowledge sharing and community unity and become a forum of complaining about not getting picked for an alliance at a regional
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I'll leave Josh's comments about complaining about the officiating alone. All I can say, is that anyone who has ever umpired a Little League Baseball game will NEVER criticize amateur officiating. I thought the refs at PNW were great. My hard hat is off to them, and I thank God daily I don't EVER have to umpire a Little League game again.
I started a thread called "Highest Seed Not Chosen for Finals." I started it because this was my first regional and I was interested in learning more about how picking is done, and whether it is unusual for a team seeded in the teens to not be chosen. I learned a lot. Of the 40+ posts to the thread I only saw one or two which might have been construed as whining. Most of them were along the lines of either "yeah, that happened to us and we've taken steps to fix it in the future," or "scouting and seeding don't have anything to do with each other."
Since Josh wasn't very specific in his comments, I don't know whether he was referring to my post, or the thread I started. I can only repeat what I wrote in my first post to that thread, that our final record was completely our responsibility, and that if our TEAM worked better we would have been a chooser not a choosee.
Part of learning about FIRST, I think, as a rookie mentor, is learning how the game is played outside the rules. I now understand the politics, for want of a better term, of choosing alliances for the elimination round. Thanks to those who contributed to my education.
ReColdAndSoreThroat: I had it for weeks. Rest, relax, watch old movies on TV. If it lasts 10 days or your fever is over 101, go see a doctor. Hope it doesn't last that long.