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Where have you been?
Posted by Kevin Sevcik at 04/11/2001 1:59 AM EST
Other on team #57, Leopards, from BT Washington and the High School for Engineering Professions and Exxon, Kellog Brown & Root, Powell Electrical.
In Reply to: Re: Disapointed in ending.reply
Posted by nick237 on 04/11/2001 12:08 AM EST:
Okay. Firstly, Dean is NOT the supreme high ruler of all that is FIRST. I can almost guarantee you that, while he's the founder and a big guy behind the scenes, he's not watching every decision that's made about nationals. The fact that the DJ had some videos that could be used as filler probably never came up in the planning meetings. No one expected the awards ceremony to be that far ahead of schedule. Then Dean was on stage when the actual decision to play the videos was made. And it was probably made from about a city block away. Frankly, t's not Dean's or anyone's fault that this happened. It was just a typical administrative screw-up. Accidents happen and people learn from them. Live with it. If you're going to let a few videos ruin your whole FIRST experience, then you're obviously in this for the wrong reasons.
Secondly, I thought the final show was pretty good. But even if it was horrible, it wouldn't make a difference. The awards ceremony is just so much useless fluff, really. It's basically just to make things look nice for the media who are only there on saturday. You know what would have really, phenomenally disappointed me? If Dean had decided to spend twice as much money on the awards ceremony to make it kick $@#$@#$@#, but then had to drop a field, or cut back somehow on the competition. That's the wholepont of nationals after all. I don't think anybody goes to nationals thinking "I wonder what the awards ceremony or team party will be like this year" Everybody's wondering what the other robots are like and how they'll do. FIRST is about the competition, not some silly awards ceremony. Like I said, if a silly mistake at the awards ceremony has soured you on FIRST, then you really need to think about why you're in this.
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