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Posted by Joe Johnson at 2/7/2001 7:19 AM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: it seems fair...
Posted by Ken Leung on 2/7/2001 6:44 AM EST:



There are 100's of things that make this competition unfair for rookie teams.

While it is hard to object to leveling the playing field in this area or that area, the field is never going to be even close to level. More importantly, the main areas of unfairness come from sources that FIRST has nothing to say about and does not wish to make fair.

To me this rule is much like a person who gets X-rayed every day watching TV from a peep hole in a lead wall because TV's emit radiation! Yeah it is true that this person may be getting a lower dose of radiation than by watching the TV directly but, in terms of risk abatement, it would be better to skip an X-ray once in a while and forget about TV habits altogether.

Again, rules are rules, and we will do our best to follow them, but... ...this one does seem a bit silly, especially on the grounds of "leveling the playing field."

Joe J.


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