Elimination Rounds-Impending Disaster?

[Jacqui Sutton]

To those concerned about the fairness of it all, think back on what dean said. He said that the game would never be fair, and it's the truth - there is always going to be some element that is unfair to someone, whether it be the rookies or maybe it could be unfair to the "best" team there and they might not win the championship. That's life. It really is. No matter whether your team wins or loses the event, you've still been exposed to an amazing experience, and if you believe that your robot was good enough to win and some *unfair* element of the game stopped that, then you should feel satisfied in knowing that you did a great job regardless, and also be satisfied in knowing that the team who did infact win also must have done a great job. It sounds cliche, but the most important thing here is not winning.

I'll admit, I want to win as bad as anyone else here. We have an even numbered team, so we dont get to go to nationals if we dont win, and as it's my first/last year on our team, I REALLY want to go to nationals. I have no doubts that every team wants to win, some more so than others, but unfortunately, as far as statistics go its not possible..I think Dean had a very valid point when he said that if we want to complain about something unfair we should think about the millions of people who dont get an opportunity to participate in this event. Maybe we should petition that to the government, make FIRST a part of every school. Petition against things not involved in FIRST, not the things that are...