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You are right Eric - very unfair rule, should be changed
Posted by Jason Morrella at 2/17/2001 4:36 AM EST
Coach on team #254, Cheesy Poofs, from Bellarmine College Prep & others and NASA Ames/Cypress Semiconductor/Unity Care.
In Reply to: FIRST please reconsider!
Posted by Eric Reed on 2/16/2001 10:50 PM EST:
The origional rule is unfair - NO TEAMS should get to keep their robot after an event like last year - it is the ONLY fair way to do it.
This year, it is changed to teams in more than one event can keep the robot 3-4 days to work on it, then ship it by Tuesday. What about the teams in other states who CAN NOT even get their robot home by Tuesday after an event?
NOW, 3 days before shipping, tell a select few teams going to two events that they will not get the EXACT SAME time with their robots as other teams - just because the only regionals close to them HAVE TO BE SCHEDULED in consecutive weeks is ridiculous.
It is simple - either ALL teams get the extra couple days, or NO teams. One of the foundations FIRST is built on is that all teams have the same amount of time to build their robots.
The answer is simple - all robots should be shipped directly from event to event like last year. Many didn't think it would work last year, and it did.
Eric - you are COMPLETELY right.
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