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Posted by Andy Grady.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Coach on team #42, P.A.R.T.S, from Alvirne High School and Daniel Webster College.

Posted on 4/10/2000 4:33 PM MST


In Reply to: that and more. posted by Daniel on 4/10/2000 3:14 PM MST:



I totally agree with you guys on this one. So many proven teams, overlooked. The biggest shocker to me, team 293 not getting picked. They may not have had the most intimidating looking robot, but one thing is for sure, THEY KNEW HOW TO WIN!! Its sad to see them overlooked, how could they be overlooked, they won 2 regionals!! This happened alot at the nationals. Not to mention how many extreemly good teams ranked really low. Nypro and Clinton was lucky to pick up a gem like Chaos before anyone realized how good they actually were, but because teams lacked good scouting power, chaos was overlooked until Nypro picked them, the same deal goes with team 25. They were Nasa's second pick! there were 25 teams picked before they were!! That is absolutely absurd for the team that I feel (and im sure many others feel too) was the biggest factor in their alliance winning the national championship. Now don't get me wrong, teams like Wildstang and Delphi had very stunning robots and deserved to be picked quickly in the first round, but still there were alot of teams with big names picked over quality teams with lesser known names. Unfortunately there is no way to avoid something like this from happening, but I just think that teams like team 293 and 1 and all the others who had the skill to be picked should be recognized (Especially Big Jimmy the wedge robot, i loved that thing =) ) But anyway, congrats to all the teams who competed, you definatly made this year one of the best.
Andy Grady, DWC/Alvirne team 42

P.S. By the way, after this year, ill never trash alliances again, they make the game interesting =)