[Jon Jack]

Austin, I think you are referring to when your team came up to ours Thursday evening to talk strategy for a match on Saturday morning. Sorry, but we feel that talking strategy for a match that is over 36 hours away is a little premature. Remember, San Diego was a Week 1 event. No one knew the dynamics of the game or how robots were going to function. Furthermore, we had no scouting data on any of the teams we were playing. So - what use would strategizing on Thursday evening be?

As for our "Get out of our way so we can score" attitude (as you said in your deleted post)... In the said match where we were allied with your team, team 3021, we were still fighting for our top-8 seed. We assigned your robot to scoring in the near zone while ours fed you balls from the middle zone. I remember that that match was very close early on and after clearing every ball in the middle zone - we felt it was best for us to come over and assist in scoring in the near zone. I distinctly remember our robot lining up on three balls in front of the goal you're team was trying to push one ball into. Rather than losing the chance to score 3 points, so you could your 1 point - I told you guys to get out of the way. In this game, you cannot pass on the chance to score 3 points that fast.

During the middle of a match information must be exchanged quickly between alliance partners. Unfortunately that means that 'please' and 'thank yous' are left in the pits.

Speaking of the pits - if you did stop by our pit, what was the 'negative/mean array' you got? Our kids are not a hard bunch of kids to talk to. I know for a fact that they do not bite (anymore, they've been de-fanged). Our kids are more than happy to talk about our robots and our team. Considering that The Holy Cows visited your team in October and did a series of workshops, you should know that we do not hesitate sharing information.

Sincerely,
Jon