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Originally Posted by 4throck
It seems that many people are completely misunderstanding the "black magic" analogy that Kelly and Rachel have brought up. Perhaps this will clear it up.
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Originally Posted by EricH
How is that different from the analogy that your teammates are using and others are replying to?
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It isn't. David simply expressed it much more eloquently than either myself or Kelly (who's a girl by the way. Don't know where that came from).
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Like "CommanderRachek", you're arguing against a position that nobody here has promoted.
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Well, actually, "Alan Anderson," nobody needs to promote it to me because I have seen its effects with my own eyes. I can distinctly remember the Thursday night of my very first regional competition. My team was in the pits very late attempting to ready our robot for inspection. There were several other teams evidently in the same predicament, as even as late as a half hour before we were ejected from the building, there were other clusters of people gathered in several other pits. However, there was a striking difference between us and the other night owls. We were the only group of students there. Every other group still there consisted entirely of adults.
Clearly, the students on these particular teams were not sufficiently inspired to be bothered to even watch their robots get completed. This is not a theoretical possibility based on conjecture. This is what I have seen with my own eyes.
For what it's worth, our infamous sponsor from upthread was there too.