[Francis-134]

While I can understand your frustration, I can also understand the "actions" of the other team. From the way you are describing it, it seems that your team is not as competitive as other teams on your field, while your alliance partner was a competitive team. Not knowing anything about either team (funny thing about being anonymous), I would guess your team went into the event with the intentions of doing as well as you can, while the other team probably had a good chance of doing even better (i.e. field finalist, winner).

In this case, I think the other team has a right to FEEL dissapointed. Going into a competition with good chances of doing well, only to be invited to an alliance that is significantly weaker than others in the division can be quite the downer. I can tell you from personal experience that being drafted into an alliance with little to no chance of sucess is very disheartening. In 2006, team 40 was selected by 1519, the 8th seed. While we had a good alliance that could have probably rocked most regionals, going against 111 and their crew in the first round was basicaly certian death. We lost in two matches handily.

We were honnored to be picked in the first round of nationals, a certian indication at the quality of our robot, but we were dissapointed that we were not chosen by a higher quality alliance later in the selection and allowed to show our tallents on a more competitive scale.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that while you may be saddened that another team was dissapointed, try looking at it from their persepective, and remember that we are talking about PEOPLE, not robots.