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Unread 04-04-2008, 10:42
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Re: Winning Multiple Regionals

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Originally Posted by Rex114 View Post
I just did a little research on the blue alliance, and I saw that your team lost to teams 40 and 20 in the Boston Regional finals this year. Both of these teams won another regional before Boston. Is this the reason why you don't think teams should be allowed to compete in more than one regional? You feel robbed of something that would of been yours had 20 and 40 not been there? Are you proposing that teams 20 and 40 are ungracious because they beat you? You honestly think it would be more inspiring to limit the talent at your competition in order for you to win, rather than play 3 hard fought matches and lose in the finals, knowing you gave some great teams a run for their money? Thats not very competitive at all. I'm just trying to imagine how you would be proud of your "win" in that case. It would be like saying "Yeah, we really didn't have the better robot, but lucky for us, the better robots aren't allowed to compete at our regional, so we won!" Just getting to the finals is a feat that my former team was only able to accomplish once in its 11 year history, you should be proud of what your team was able to accomplished this year, and not take away from what other teams accomplished either.

Mike C.
I wasnt aware that team 40 had also won one. People have brought up this point of jealousy many times, and as I said before I dont beleive ive made any of these topics personal at all, I havent spoken of my team once, im doing my best to speak from a completely outside point of view. But since you must, my team did great anyways, the finals was as far as Ive ever gotten, so Im happy.

edit: (outside, not objective, I am taking a stance on the situation)