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Re: Team update 16
Is it really that big a deal?
1551 has been going to week 1 regionals since it's inception -- and has never attended two regionals -- and we've never found that there's some big problem with the first week...
Could they have anticipated the seeding issues? Sure.
Could they have anticipated the reffing issues? Sure.
Were either of these things a surprise to anyone playing? Not if they read the rules and assumed they would be followed to a 'T'***...
...and that means that at the very least, week 1 teams were playing a fair game.
**...even though this may be a bad assumption. Two years ago, our robot Shiela was designed around the fact that contact outside the bumper zone would be penalized. It pretty much never was, and our super-compact trackball grabber went basically unnoticed -- as did the elegant design that only extended 3" outside the frame, and then only while gathering a trackball from the floor. And there were plenty of games that we would have won had cotbz penalties been called...
But that's ok. Once we knew how it would be played, a fair game is a fair game, and fun (and learnin') was had by all.
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Patrick Freivald -- Mentor
Team 1551
"The Grapes of Wrath"
Bausch & Lomb, PTC Corporation, and Naples High School
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