[waialua359]

as emotions settle down, lets remember why we do this?? A great learning opportunity for schools, communities and most of all, the students.
There were a lot of other issues that teams can complain about, like scheduling of matches. Why offer a rookie all star award or highest seeding when many of them got a "free" ride with veteran teams? Why is it that I can never be partners with the teams right next to us in the pit? Shouldn't it be purely random? I can speak from an experience where a robot that couldn't do anything really can move its way up to a highly competitive regional as a #2 seed???
The design of the game where all the robots fought to get to one area in the middle to score lent itself to this situation with defense. Perhaps, like Dave Lavery mentioned to us about the 2005 tetra game, we need to have more different areas of scoring and loading locations than robots to help prevent a clog of robots fighting for scoring/positioning so that this sort of thing cant happen. That was their intent that year in creating an offensive, scoring game.

I know that this wont make the emotions change, but Im sure many have expressed their support in saying that it was an unfortunate accident and no one purposely wished anyone harm, including our team.