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Originally Posted by Don1498
Hello Everyone
Well, I wanted to say that 2008 Greater Toronto regional was good as always. But I had couple of feedback for this regional. As you all know that which ever competition 1114 enters ends up winning? The question is that is it fair to all other teams? I guess not. The reason being is since 1114 has engineers giving them good idea and stuff. All their students have to do is make a product out of it. I am 100 % sure that it’s not all students doing it. But on the other hand the teams who have less resources and money and sponsors or maybe they just had a bad year. What will they think? Perhaps thinking that they don’t have to try since they know no matter how much they try 1114 is going to take the competition away from them. If someone here thinks that 1114 student are smart to make a machine which they have right now I think first robotics competition isn’t the place to be. Maybe they should be sitting at MIT.
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I'm too irritated to give the post a well thought out response, and frankly you don't deserve one.
Since when did it become acceptable to insult the intelligence of a group of teenagers. I'm tired of coming on CD and having to listen people who have no clue what they're talking about slam our students. These kids sacrifice so much to be a part of Team 1114. Some are putting in 8 hours a day during build season, to help our team and others. They don't do it for any form of recognition, but frankly each time someone comes out and says "oh they don't do anything" or "they're not smart enough to have come up with that" it hurts. These kids break their backs for not only the team, but the FIRST community, and this is the respect they're shown? Sure, these negative comments are far fewer than the positive ones, but it doesn't mean they hurt any less.
This seems to happen at least once a season on these forums, and numerous times behind their backs at competitions. (Or in their face at the Canadian team forums...)
I'm at a loss for words. (Which most of you know never happens.)
Btw, one of our students may be sitting at MIT in the fall, he's waiting on his acceptance.