[Arefin Bari]

The past few days there have been a lot of threads which points out the negatives of past championship event. It also points our negative points about refs, volunteers. There are few positive threads too but the sad part is the negative threads have way more posts than the positive ones.

I am sorry to come out just like this, but please give it a break. It took many days of planning to pull together an event like this. I am sure reading all these negative points aren’t making the committee members very happy. Someone pointed this out earlier, but I would like to point this out again. All the judges, refs, and volunteers are students, mentors, teachers, engineers who took their time off from their schedule to work at the event so the teams can have fun. They tried to run it as smoothly as possible. So what if everything wasn’t perfect in your opinion. Keep in mind that there were thousands of people at the event and every single one of them has their point of view. Some may have liked what happened at the championship event, some may not. FIRST has done it’s best to give all of us a good time. Things can get frustrating a lot of times, but think about the positives.

It is very upsetting to see the first few threads are about the “negative” part of the event when I visit the forum. I would like to see one person come out here and say that they had a horrible time at the championship, because one way or the other, you enjoyed your time in Atlanta.

I apologize in advance if this thread upsets anyone…

-Arefin.