[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Leav

(what the Turkish, Bosnian and two Californian teams must think of us now... ).

Leav - What the teams are probably thinking is, wow - what an experience! That would be what our team would think. It is amazing for me to even think we have a Bosnian team. How very very cool is that? And a Turkish team and they competed at the regional in Israel.

Sometimes - as hard as it is, we have to look at the bigger picture. When communications sputter or fail. When emotions gather into a potential storm. When teams have to find compromise in the midst of a fierce need and want to compete and compete well. The posts in this thread by the members of 7 different teams from the regional - so far - show that you all have held your heads high and that you want to compete and compete well. It also shows that more work needs to be done. Bayou had problems. We all watched as the teams and the volunteers struggled to make it work. My team is competing in Dallas this week and I hope for and wish for a smooth efficient competition. I do. But, what I know is that the FRC teams are tough and made up of people who understand what it takes to build a robot to compete in an FRC competition. They will deal with the situation just as all of you dealt with what happened at your regional. Where you may have lost in communications with the robots, you gained in communicating with Gracious Professionalism. All of you. You strove for it.

We can all learn from this.
Jane