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"I just want to play ball" - Shoeless Joe
Posted by Raul, Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.
Posted on 3/29/99 1:56 AM MST
In Reply to: There can be no REJECTIONS!!!!!!!!! posted by Brian Beatty on 3/28/99 12:58 PM MST:
I have just read a ton of messages on this board on various subjects. Its amazing how passionate we are about this great competition that we are trying to dissect. We all have many different ideas and opinions on how things should be done. I don't
know what to say; my head is spinning with ideas.
I can't help but think that we have lost track of what FIRST is all about. I don't need to explain to you what the letters in FIRST mean.
We the Wildstang team (I think I can speak for most of us), ha
d a great time at Great lakes. Sure, we were turned down by some teams and a few others warned us ahead of time that they wanted to play with another team. Hey, I was not offended by any team who rejected us.
I JUST WANT TO PLAY BALL! I just want
to enjoy the competition. We just want a fair shot, not any advantage, not any deals or commitments.
I don't want to have to worry about marketing our robot to a team in order to convince them that we are worthy of their alliance. Shouldn't our perform
ance in the QM's be enough to show what we can do? If a team does not feel that we are worthy, we will just go to the next team on our list and ask them.
So, not matter what the rules at Nationals, we will be there to have fun and play ball.
I would
like also like to thank the Cosmo Force and Woburn Robotics teams for accepting our alliance. Your teams are a group of classy people. I feel bad we did not get Woburn Robotics a chance to play in a match.
Excuse the long and incoherent messages - it
is 2:45 AM and I could not sleep.
Good luck to all and I wish you fruitful alliances.
Raul
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