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Re: Time-Outs, Give it or keep it?
I'll start by saying nothing I say here is meant offensively or to intentionally put down anyone.
I was rather disappointed in the way things turned out in the semis. Winning by penalties in the 2 vs 3 was certainly not ideal.
I was on the pit crew that fixed the drive train, and I know we would have LOVED your timeout. However, I do not think any less of any members of your alliance because you did not give it to us.
I think giving the timeout is a great display of the morals and spirit of FIRST, but it is in a way suicide for your alliance and against the idea of competition. Of course you do not want to win because of our drive train failure, just as we didn't want to win due to penalties, but rules are rules and failures are failures. If a team can not fix their robot in the time given by the timeout, then their design was not robust enough and they do not deserve the title.
In the end, we all knew 469, 217, and 440 were going to be brutal competition, so I see nothing wrong with you guys wanting to save your timeout, in case you needed it against them.
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