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Unread 28-03-2009, 20:30
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Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional

I am on team 188 and I will tell you right now that there was in NO way any bias on the call. In fact the head ref that made the call was a former 188 team member. I was as upset as any but I have to say that the head ref made the right call. As for the reason of Team 188 calling the time out and being late I have no inside knowledge as I try to be removed from the team while I am a volunteer.

This final was well played, tough and exciting. Kudos go to the #1 alliance as they were great competitors and gracious winners. I for one hold no ill feelings against anyone at the competition and I still say that it is the best in FIRST.

As for the webcast and scoring issues, there was a major DSL crash in the Mississauga area. On Thursday the system went down for 10 hours or so and affected about 800 users. Todays failure was worse and there were more than 8000 users affected. I did my best to escalate the situation as the company I work for donated the services. Unfortunately this affected the webcast and the scoring update, however try as I might, it was out of my hands.
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