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Originally Posted by InfernoX14
Edit: You are also completely overlooking the rest of the song. After reading the lyrics, the song is about the struggle these "champions" have gone through to reach that point. You can't say that designing, building, and testing a robot in a 6 week time period with weight, size, cost, and part limitations isn't a challenge or a struggle. Not to mention all the matches these champions have to go through and the tough opponents they have to defeat.
The song uses that "no time for losers" line a total of two times. There are two whole verses about how hard it was to reach the top.
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So let's imagine this: if the song instead of saying "no time for losers" said "the losers are no-good idiots" would this be an acceptable song? Your 'argument' above would still apparently support the song, since it's just not a big deal because it only has this line two (actually three) times.
Cory, if you're looking for subliminal messages, you've missed the point entirely. "No time for losers" is not a subliminal message. It says, quite plainly, that winning is all that matters, and that losers are unimportant at best. Does this click with FIRST?
For the past two years, I've been a principle author of my team's Chairman's award submission. If my memory is correct, in at least one if not both years of our submission, we included some line to the effect of "We [try to] exemplify gracious professionalism in everything we do." Why should FIRST events be any different? Is the whole concept of gracious professionalism phony, just something we tell reporters?
Concerned,
Paul