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Re: Early Release Field Elements BOM.
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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
Point well taken...

My point of the post was to illustrate that FIRST relies on volunteers. Often times, those volunteers are involved with teams. Therefore, some people involved with competition teams already know what will be revealed to us regular folks on Saturday.
Last season we had a 'pre-meeting' a couple of days before the kick-off. One of our engineers said that we would all have a great time with the game. I asked how he knew and he told me that he had already built some game pieces for the kick-off at Stennis Space Center. It ended up he had built a handfull of tetras, a center goal and a regular goal. BUT, he couldn't / wouldn't tell us any of that and we didn't find out ANYTHING about the game until we got to Stennis.

I finally forgave him for keeping the secret. It wasn't until Atlanta for the Championships over a couple of drinks, but I did forgive.
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