i didnt like this years game....please read

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Posted by Billy Mallard at 04/11/2001 12:51 AM EST


Student on team #254, the Cheesy Poofs, from Bellarmine College Prep and NASA.


In Reply to: Warning: rant inside
Posted by Jason Iannuzzi on 04/10/2001 1:40 PM EST:



: Technicalities aside, the only real difference between this year and last, is that this year, competing teams did not share the same field. There were still "losers", there were still bad machines, there was still bad sportsmanship, it just wasn't as interesting to watch. Effectively, we all had half our our possible solutions (defensive opportunities) to the problem eliminated before we had a chance to consider them and in turn, the audience got a really bad show.

: I don't have a problem with people cheering winners and losers, that's life. As long as this is called the FIRST Competition, there will be a winner and a loser. My problem is I really wonder who's feelings FIRST is trying to protect? The teams that don't do well already know they don't do well. The audience knows they don't do well. Other teams know they don't do well. By not showing who won and lost in a particular match, do we really accomplish anything other than depriving the audience of any and all satisfaction? If FIRST really wants to make us all feel like winners, then there shouldn't be playoffs, there shouldn't be a champion, and there shouldn't be a scoring system.

: Let's all just get out on the field and hug. We can sit in a circle and discuss how much this resembles the real world of engineering and life. Then we can sprinkle some fairy dust on our heads and live forever too.