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View Poll Results: Should FIRST adopt this as the new rules?
Yes, This is much better 13 30.95%
No, Both this and FIRST are way off 14 33.33%
No, I for 1 like negative points 15 35.71%
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Originally posted by Bill Gold
redbeard0531 & Ricksta121:
Keep your "improvements" or ideal changes in hand for the Team Forum or for any post season event that you might be organizing, but for now you're going to have to deal with what FIRST decides. If they want to allow for negative points, fine. If they unintentionally made people think that there was a possibility of getting negative points, fine. You're not the people making up the rules for the 2003 FRC, and you're going to have to deal with the rules just like the rest of us. So what's the point in complaining so much? If you think that a petition (wether it be on the CD Forums or emailed directly to FIRST) will make FIRST change their mind, you're gravely mistaken. No matter what FIRST decides there will be people who are upset. They won't be gaining anything by changing the rules based on the remonstrations of some FIRSTers, they'd just be in the same boat as they are now. Give the complaining a rest, and put your emotion into something more fruitful (i.e. strategizing/designing/prototyping/building a robot to compete in the game that FIRST is putting on). Remember what Dean said about fairness? Think about how lucky you are to even be a part of this competition/family, and not live in some undeveloped nation without drinking water (for example).

-Bill Gold

But you couldn't be more wrong.

FIRST does listen to those who complain, very much so. Infact, last year many teams broke the tape measure rule. So many that FIRST simply threw out the rule, but they didn't just throw it out in the build period, they actualy threw it out at the regionals! After the build period. And they do gain something by changin this rule. Dean said we are "competing" with sports. And if we are to compete with them we MUST change this rule to be more spectator friendly(note that dean stressed the "spectator friendly" stuff alot). So, maybe you, as well as FIRST, should rethink things.

Also, I do not believe this to be intentful. I believe that the wording that allows for negative points was a mistake, and once noticed will most likely be rectified.
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