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The Buckeye Regional was also very unorganized and unprofessional. I have no idea how well our team did, nor do I have any idea how conferences work (why were we judging animations for teams that didn't attend our regional? What would happen if they won? If the top three teams from each regionals goes onto nationals, how does that work? Does that mean somebody can go to nationals a few times because each team is judged at several regional competition?). Nobody at the competition had any clue about anything related to animation or website for that matter (and not to knock 1038's website, but isn't it odd that Chief didn't win it?). Our animation relied heavily on our sound and music (which we recorded ourselves; many teams took copyrighted music), yet it was being shown in the loud pit area on a small tv. I highly doubt that ballots were screened so that people did not vote for themselves.

I lead a team of very dedicated and motivated high schoolers to make a great, high quality animation that we were very proud of. After spending so much time on it, it sure doesn't seem fair that there was absolutely no thought put into the organization of this animation competition. I'm very disappointed in FIRST and I was hoping that not all of the regionals would be thrown like this. I'm sorry that your scenario was just as bad if not worse than mine. FIRST needs to start to understand just how much time and effort is spent on some of these animations.

-Adam Smith
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