[JBotAlan]

I think everyone here needs to take a huge breath. Good air in, bad air out.

Now, do you feel the way you do because of the 100-some other replies here, or because of the actual rule? Are you ticked off because of what someone else implied here? Is this as big of a problem as we're making it?

FIRST recognized that their matches were not random. They also said that it would be fixed soon. Before they released this information, people were *freaking out* thinking that this was an intentional conspiracy to match "newbie" teams with other "newbies", to kill some teams, whatever. FIRST is fixing it. That sure seems a lot like what's going on here.

FIRST made a call. A whole lot of people don't like that call. Just give FIRST a little bit of time--they don't move as fast as our posts here.

Now, how many people here have actually contacted FIRST? Chances are, FIRST doesn't even know that teams are this flustered by the new ruling. Let them know! But please, please do so in a GP way!

I'm not going to interject my stance on this issue; it really doesn't belong here.

Just my 2 cents

JBot