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Originally Posted by dragonrulr288
216 and 288 are bothe grandville teams. we chose to have 2 teams this year for more hands on experience for our team. we have 2-3 returning people, and all new coaches. we are not called a 'rookie team' because we are an established team, and have been for 10 year now [wow! 1999!!].
Sadly, due to a change of leaders, and a few things unbeknownst to the students, we had a team split we werent expecting. Code red formed with the old Robodawgs coach, a few of the former Robodawg students, and other schools in our area, and are a 'rookie team' from what FIRST deemed, so they are a 'rookie team'.
And I hope that 216 goes to state, we worked hard through much of what a 'rookie team' faces, with so few people that returned, but a drive to work our hardest. Thanks to thoes who think we should go.
I also think, as a few others said, It would be a true example of GP if the teams that qualify for state who maybe got up there through a bit of good fortune would step down, and let teams thay may have had a hard time early on, but came back to kick some bolts on to state.
However this is an opinian, and as I am entitled to mine, you may have yours.
I hope to see you all at state!
~Abby, 216~
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Hi,
Thanks for clarifying the history between 216, 288 and 2771. Congratulations on your accomplishments as a new "non-rookie" team and the improvement on the robot you were able to make within a few weeks. I think Grandville High School is a great example to other big teams to split into two teams so more students have hands-on experience on the robot instead of having very limited responsibilities. It is not easy to make that choice especially with the economy we have in Michigan to have to raise more money. Team 216 is only 6 places below the cutoff. There will probably be teams who can not raise the money (not that we hope any team will not be able to) or decide to skip State to save money and go to Atlanta. I really hope you can make it after all your hard work.
I don't have any hard feelings with 2771. I want to congratulate them on their accomplishments. They did a lot of work and provided a great service to other teams through their webcasts. They won 3 of the Rookie All-Star Awards at the 7 districts. I think they deserve to win the Chairman's Award instead for their work and let other true rookie teams have a chance at the Rookie All-Star Award. In my opinon, even with 4 veteran FRC students on the team at the time of kickoff and 5 more veteran FRC students join only after the kickoff should not qualify them as a rookie team. I know FIRST allowed them to decide on their own because of that unique situation. I don't think it is a very GP tihng to make the choice they made. I think FIRST should clarify the definition of rookie team.
Ed