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Re: Because they didn't have a robot- doesn't mean no effort!
Posted by Gui Cavalcanti at 03/17/2001 4:44 PM EST


Student on team #422, Mech Tech, from Governor's School (GSGIS) and Verizon.


In Reply to: Because they didn't have a robot- doesn't mean no effort!
Posted by colleen - T190 on 03/17/2001 3:43 PM EST:



I realized all your comments were right, Colleen, but I posted that because I was a bit miffed. I understand what you're saying, and now that I realize it, they did deserve the Sportsmanship award. At the time, all our team could think about when our robot was fixed and ready to go was getting the other robot up and running. I actually got in hot water with my team's captain when I was called back from their pit, after working on some code (Note to all programmers: You know the feeling when you're on the last lines of code and someone calls you away, right?) for their team. We didn't want the Sportsmanship award at all, and it definitely was not our motivation.
There are two sides to my next argument, which is all that I'm really miffed at; their placement in the ranks. I saw teams with so much more energy, putting so much work into their robot, putting so much more energy into their design (as a comparison, only half of 615's team was ever in their pits at any time, even during the uncrating. i never even saw them in the stands). It just bothered me that the game involves pure luck (sometimes) and nothing else when it comes to final rankings.

-Gui
422 - Mech Tech


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