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Posted by Jerry Eckert, Engineer on team #140 from Tyngsboro, MA High School and New England Prototype/Brooks Automation.

Posted on 3/28/99 1:43 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Yeah, but what happens when... posted by Peter VanWylen on 3/28/99 12:31 PM MST:



: : 1. what happens when, persay, team A chooses teams B & C as it's alliances for competition. team B is the team they really wanted to play with, and they picked team C cause they are good, but moreso because they had to with this rule than anything. so, team A and team B go out and play. the alliance as is is competing well, and there's no need to change a good thing, so the alliance of A and B go on to win it all. what happens to C? they did not actually compete in the elimination matches but their alliance did win, do they get to wear the gold too? how many of us would like to be team C? i wouldn't want to go up there and get a medal for something i didn't win, nor would i want to be the team that wasn't good enough to play... but maybe i'm proud of my work and get embarassed to easily.. it could be me..

: Indeed this did happen in Ypsi. ITW Drawform(BOB) played once, but then was replaced permanently by OSMTech. And yet they walk away with the same medal as Beatty.
: Something is wrong here...

How is that any different from the last-string sports player who sits
on the bench for the entire Super Bowl/World Series/whatever and gets
the same championship ring/trophy/bonus as the starters?

Let's face it, folks -- there's no way this competition is going to be,
or can be, fair to all teams under all situations. In that regard it
is a pretty accurate reflection of life in general.

- Jerry