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Re: Thanks . .

Posted by Brad Pflum, Coach on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Gunn High School and Nasa Ames, Sun Microsystems.

Posted on 2/28/99 11:41 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Thanks . . posted by Andy Grady on 2/28/99 7:10 PM MST:



: Until I heard the explanation of exactly what happened i thought that
: the refs may have made a bad judgement. It appeared on tv that Broadway
: was trying to engage the puck while lifting the floppies over 8ft.

Please read my reply to Jason's statements.

: However there was a rough angle for that particular shot so I
: misinterpreteted what happened. I feel that if they were trying to
: engage the puck, it was a valid tip, but from what Jason says, the refs

They were engaging the puck. We issued a legit tip. Please read my reply to Jason's statements.

: made an outstanding call. Being tipped sucks any way you put it, and
: im glad they are preventing tipping that is unsportsmanlike. I hated
: watching my old teams machine fall in the semi's in "97" due to tipping
: device and i feel the same this year about seeing teams tipped unfairly.

The tip was unintentional and as such not unsportsmanlike. i know exactly
how much being tipped sucks. when we were tipped in our last match the
robot fell on and bent the arm. my fellow students and I spent an
insane ammount of time designing, prototyping and building and re-building that arm.
it's heartbreaking when two robots push you over and your hard work gets
bent. Now i get to spend even more time replacing it. But thats the
game and that's life. We built that sucker strong as hell, the bend is slight and it'll still
function pretty well but we don't like having bent arms, and WE know it's there

see ya in florida,
-Brad
Senior at Gunn High School
Co-Captain & Coach, Gunn Robotics Team
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