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Unread 18-03-2007, 12:37
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Re: 2007 Great Lakes Regional, Best Ever?

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Originally Posted by blaskay16 View Post
Another classic example of poor scouting. I as the lead driver know for a fact that the last round we scored 4 rings attempting 5. You want proof...ok. That round we were aligned with team 313 and 1528. Both ramp bots. While they were defending we were scoring ringers at a alarming pace. To add insult to injury that round 1528's ramps failed to work with 50 seconds left in the match so i needed to come back and deploy mine. My ramps were deployed and ready to go with 40 seconds remaining. If i never needed to do that i would have had 6 or 7 rings that round. Askany of our alliance partners. Heck even ask people who werent aligned with us. I am apauled at the blatened act of trying and failing to prove me wrong. No doubt the competition was fun just poorly exicuted
Here's the data Team 1114 collected on your team from your Friday matches at GLR. Notice it almost exactly agrees with Team 1504's data.

Match 06 - Team 815
Rings Scored: 0
Robots Supported: 0
Robots Climbed: 0

Match 11 - Team 815
Rings Scored: 1
Robots Supported: 0
Robots Climbed: 0

Match 22 - Team 815
Rings Scored: 1
Robots Supported: 0
Robots Climbed: 0

Match 31 - Team 815
Rings Scored: 4
Robots Supported: 0
Robots Climbed: 0

Match 43 - Team 815
Rings Scored: 2
Robots Supported: 0
Robots Climbed: 1 for 30

Match 58 - Team 815
Rings Scored: 1
Robots Supported: 1 for 15
Robots Climbed: 0

Maybe you didn't get chosen for the elimination rounds because teams were unimpressed by your embellishment of your abilities. I know that one of the most important qualities we look for in an alliance partner is a team who is honest and realistic about their abilities. You said you were scoring at least 5 tubes per match. The numbers seem to disagree.

There's nothing worse than a sore loser. I suggest you stop complaining about your loss on CD, before you further damage the reputation of your team.
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Last edited by Karthik : 18-03-2007 at 20:09. Reason: clarity