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Originally posted by verdeyw
Thanks Al, you've made my point exactly. Like I said before, teams at FIRST events do not just let other teams flounder when they need help. When a team needs help, the helpers have to stand in line! That is the beauty of this organization, and it will not change because there's more contact in the game.........Quote.
If a team needs a part and they are against us in the next game and they would not be able to field then I might be tempted to hold the part back to insure the win if winning means going to Florida. Prior to this year everyone went to Florida so there is a difference this year.
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Nick, I'm sorry, but you're completely off base here. In 1999, there was just as good a chance that a robot that team 111 helped fix would come back to compete against team 111. The truth of the matter is that it's much more fun to compete against robots that work than it is to compete against broken robots, and, more importantly, it is in the spirit of the game to help!Quote.
The optimum word is "WAS" It "was" much more fun to be against Robots that worked but now its better if they are broken, as for the spirit there is none this year. If you want to go to Florida and your an odd # then you better win, how else are you going to get there.... Spirit.
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Bad news - those three days aren't going to help you, even in this situation. Better hope you have a good partner, maybe even someone who's robot you helped fix. Quote.
Last year we totaly rebuilt our Robot from scratch in three days, we worked around the clock for 72 hours and came out with a much better Robot. and believe it or not we had a much better team too.
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The thing that distresses me the most about this thread, though, is that no one has addressed my point about teams attending multiple regionals having an unfair advantage. Am I off base with this statement? And please be civil - just because we disagree doesn't mean that we can't do it graciously.
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I have no problem with multiple regionals, we are going to 2 and I wish we could get to them all but we dont have the funds. The attendence of many regionals is factored by the total amount of $$$ that a team has and that might be what your talking about. Good luck to any team that can go to multi regionals but your going to see a much different game this year. Will teams be chearing for other teams like they have in the past, I dont think so.
The fun is the Nationals and if your an even team then the spirit might be with you but if your an odd team then its Win or Loose except theres an added twist, if your Bot is damaged you cant fix it.
Nick