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Originally Posted by FierceRabbit
Hmm interesting...
It was brought up to me that the "Head" mentor of 494 Had a 20 minute talk with the "head" mentor of 997 after everything was over...
The story goes...
Throughout duration of the competition 494 thought highly of 997. When it came time for alliance selections 494 was ranked number 1. They chose the poofs. The 3rd round came back to 494. The "setup" they wanted was two scoring robots, and a "pushing" robot. According to the poofs, 997 was on the "do not pick list" because they could not fit on their ramps and did not lift the poofs to a full 12 inches. The rep from 494 "didn't see it" and chose 997 without thinking twice.
When Quarterfinal match came round' 254, 494, and 997 were about to enter the field. I was on the floor taking pictures when I hear 997 is to be substituted. The excuse was that the ramps didnt work right. My initial reaction was....(several obscenities)
As you all know the ruling was to keep 997 in the picture and go on with the matches.
(during one of the quarterfinal matches) I looked at EJ (mentor from 254) straight in the eyes and asked him what the deal was. He told me that it was 494's decision to substitute 997 and that they really never gave an excuse for it, taking the poofs out of the picture. interesting....
The matches continued on to the semi's and eventually this alliance was eliminated. Not due to the fact that both 254 and 494 were not lifted to a height of 12 inches + but....to the fact that the poofs could not stay on their feet...2 rounds in a row. Both 997 and 494 did their best to hold off both alliances. blah blah blah you all watched the rounds.
When 997 was packing up the robot a The "head" mentor from 997 wanted to get the truth on this whole saga and went over to 494. The mentor from 484 proceeded to tell situation of how the 254 did not want 997 in the first place because they could not lift to a full 12 inches, and they convinced/concurred 494 to sub them out at the beginning of the round.
An extremely successful team like 254 has a lot of "Power" so to speak when it comes to running a finals alliance team. They are/were respected for it.
What that tells me is that EJ straight up lied to me about 254 not being involved in the substitution process. Ugh? am i confused....did i hear wrong...? i hope so. It just brings me down that a highly respected member of 254 would look at me in the eyes and lie to me?
bah....im done talking about this.
F.R.
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If you're going to slander our team, why don't you at least have the guts to do so with your identity out in the open? You make a lot of claims, all heard second-hand from people who may or may not have given you the correct information, which you may or may not have understood correctly. Furthermore, to specifically call out a member of our team by name is entirely inappropriate.
There was no dark, malicious reason for trying to replace you.
494 was originally going to pick a third scoring robot. Somehow a mistake was made and that didn't happen.
We (both 494 and 254) were ready and willing to make the best of it at that point--until 494 tried to get on your ramps and could not, and we then made the discovery that your ramps did not lift to the full 12". Whether or not the referees had been giving you the full points is irrelevant--any way we measured it, after waiting any length of time for your pneumatics to recharge, your platforms
did not reach 12".
Furthermore, you were never on our don't pick list for not lifting to 12". We had no idea that was the case at the time. You were infact on it, albeit at the very bottom
with all the other ramp bots, simply because we valued a scorer more.
Replacing a robot is never fun or easy. No feelings were intended to be hurt--it was attempted solely to give the alliance it's best competitive chance when it was discovered that one robot's primary function was not going to work. It's unfortunate that it ever happened in the first place, but name calling, finger pointing, and trash talking aren't going to make things better.
-Cory