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Originally Posted by Waynep

I have to say I'm rather disappointed in the this thread and the posts coming from teachers and mentors. We should not be spotlighting this match in the manner that it is presented in this thread. Those students were pretty disheartened, I saw it on their faces, when the penalties were issued and now it's brought to the attention of the entire CD community which I think is really discouraging. We should applaud these guys for having the courage and determination to attempt Hybrid mode. What happened was literally beyond their operators control and they did not do it intentionally. Things go wrong; it happens to the best of us. You learn from it and move on. And if you are fortunate enough to be an experienced mentor that can help or can get someone to help these teams on the learning curve, you should rather than point out how to get 130 points in penalties.
-wayne

I agree that this should be taken as a less to all teams, not thought of as going after a single team. I was there and saw this match, and like most teams at some point in time there was just a glitch in the programming and it happens. I think this is worth talking about because it happened at an event. We celebrate teams like 27 for their "amazing shooting" over the center divider,constantly talk about teams who get regional or national high scores in a match, or debate if 190's game plan is legal, so why not this?