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Time to think...
Posted by Joe Johnson at 03/19/2001 11:46 AM EST


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


In Reply to: Picks...
Posted by Bill Gold on 03/19/2001 10:56 AM EST:



At the NYC regional the top seeds were fluid.

2 matches before the end of the Seeding Rounds, we were sitting in the Mid-teens with little hope of being a picking team.

Then we had 2 good matches (the last two) and bing-bam-boom we were seeded #5 and paired with the #1 seed in the Elims.

When we went to meet our partners, they were literally reading the rule book to find out what happens next. Beyond one pick that they were certain about, they had no other firm plans about who they should pick.

In the end, things worked out great, but it was very nerve racking to have your team called up to the front with little or no idea of what teams they were going to pick.

I really don't know why FIRST is in such a hurry with the draft.

Fairness to teams really requires at least 1/2 hour be set aside for teams to think about their picking strategy.

Joe J.


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