Words from a team least likely to have made a run to Einstein

[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by Don Wright

These are nice posts and thanks...

But, please...everyone...stop trying to tell other teams how they should feel.

It's not helping.

To add to what Don said, please do not tell the Einstein 12 teams that they should be happy just being there and they should celebrate because they had a great robot and a great season before Einstein. There are many many teams who may feel that way that if their team made it to Einstein, they don't really care how it turned out and they would be ecstatic. With that logic, there are many teams who very seldom got picked to play in elimination round will say that if they got to elimination round at a regional, they really don't care how far they advance and they would celebrate because they had a great season. I hope you see my point.

Some of these Einstein 12 teams are regulars on Einstein or really earned their way to Championship by winning regionals as Alliance Captains or first round picks. These teams are really competing at a different level. Their goals are different from many many teams. Just being in elimination round is not good enough. Just being on Einstein is not good enough. They want to be able to do the best their robot is capable of doing but they were robbed.

Just think of elite athletes in any sports. They trained very hard for many years. They have very high hopes, much higher than yours or mine. The Olympics is around the corner. Let's use that as an example. Let's use swimming. In each event, a country can only send two swimmers. As you know in many races, a 1/100th of a second is sometimes all there is between number two and number three. The number two will go to the olympics and number three will stay home. Let's say somebody jumped in 2/100th of a second too early but did not get caught for some reason or they did an illegal kick and didn't get caught. Go try and tell the swimmer who came in third that they should celerate just for being there and they are already swimming faster than 99.999% of the people in this world. That is extremely insensitive.