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Originally Posted by RandomStyuff
I hope this post brings new information to light and explains part of what happened. I would actually take the opposite stance and praise FIRST Israel for doing everything within their powers to get things working, even when it cost them more than they could usually afford.  )
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Dear RandomStyuff
It is pretty annoying that I do not know your name (Yaron is my real name

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Your post really brought new issues to consider. I want to assure you that I respect the hard work and the extremely long hours you were exposed to failures in engineering that you are not responsible for. I (and everyone from MisCar and from any other team who know how much work need to be done in order to organize such an event) appreciate very much every single step you and others have taken to assist in solving problems. There is an idiom: a smart move is not to enter a situation that a clever move can fix - this is what FIRST ISRAEL should have done. Almost all of the details you mentioned are known from 2009, nothing have been changed, on the contrary probably got worst with communication networking in Nokia. Israel is known for best HiTech - no reasons can justify Israel regional to be less quality regional than NH!!!
I hope that you accept this and understand that not even one word of my long posts are referring personally to anybody. I want to improve FIRST ISRAEL at least as you, but unfortunately I can not join you in praising FIRST Israel for the 2010 regional.
My feelings are heart not only because of all the mentors from many teams who are desperate but also for students who said never again - there are other excellent robotic programs with lesser disappointment from the final celebration of science and technology - the competition - mentors and students might consider these. I personally will not do so, and continue in assisting FRC teams in order to improve the FRC community and hope FIRST Israel regional will be a better celebration of good engineering.