2012-Greater Toronto Regional East

[Lara Surmak]

I'm sorry if you all feel this way or if I offended anyone. Yes, they both have their good sides like any other team, but I'm trying to level the playing field so to speak. The design and execution of their robots are too good to be student made. I also went to visit 2056 during last build, and was told by a 2056 parent that one of the mentors designed the robot. I asked (out of curiosity if the rumors were true) an old 2056 driver if the students had much part in robot development, and he got extremely defensive.

Most of what people see on the playing field is money. They win, they get more sponsors to create better robots to destroy the competition.

By the way, I'm not worried about 1114 and 2056 students being inspired, but more everyone on the losing teams. If they see that anything they create is bested every time, they get discouraged and leave.

I'm just dissapointed with how many rookie teams, or even veteran teams, are getting crushed by teams like this. I wish you could see my point of view.