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Originally Posted by yaron

I am happy that you think that MisCar was and still is the best team in Israel. Saddly, it is unbeliveble that your dream is to beat MisCar, who since the 2005 assisted more than 50% of the teams in Israel through many stages of their development. Many still seek our advice even when they are not Rookies anymore.
Inspite of your sad remark we will continue to play a fair game and assist as many teams we can as we did this year assisting 6 rookie teams and assist enourmous amount of others.
Good luck at the competition, you will need it, if you want to beat MisCar you will need to get the Newton Finalist Award - this is the current title MisCar holds!!!
Yaron

I don't understand why my remark was unbelivable and sad.
Surley, like the others said, you've misinterpeted my words.
Evey team needs a certain bar to hope to reach to. Whether it be to just win the Championship, or to win Atlanta, or Chairmans, or just to compete in the competition or even simpler stuff.

When I first saw you guys in 2007 I was impressed you could build a very powerful bot and I realized that our design for our 2007 robot was not good enough for that year's game (being that we only took tubes from the chute, and not from the floor like everyone did).
Because I saw you guys win with an excellent robot, I wanted to build a robot as good as yours in the following years. My goal was to win the Regional and go to Atlanta. I realized you guys are serial champions in Israel and it would probablly mean that I would be seeing you in the finals in the following year, so my goal was actually to beat Miscar, so I could say "my bot is good enough to win the regional". Each year, you pretty much define the bar of what an excellent bot is for the Israeli regional. You haven't failed us since 2007.
My statment in bolds just shows how you've influenced on me and probablly on other Israeli or other country FIRST teams. You are a role model to other teams in the part of Team Building (Mangement), Project Funding (sponsers) and a succesful design of a robot.

Now I realise that my wording was probablly too extreme. It wasn't to defeat, or to beat, because there is no violence or...anything like that. I've learned from friends that everyone in FIRST is a winner, just by building a robot in 6 weeks, and as a high school student.
So there is only to WIN Miscar.

But you are right, Yaron. We've got an even tougher title to achieve which is the Division Finalists. Kudos for reaching that far and we hope that in future years you might even reach higher!
We'll do our best and represnt our country in the best way we can.