Alliance Invitation Phrase

[kmusa]

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Originally Posted by TedG

I don't understand why some of you are annoyed with "team xxxx graciously accepts", it's clean, it's professional and to the point.

Maybe you've heard it so much you're sick of it but there are lots of new people in the stands every year who think it's nice and professional.

I agree with "clean" and "nice", and I'll ignore "to the point" for now.

Since it's a fundamental misuse of the word (as well as a malapropism), it can't come off as professional, especially to the reporters covering the event.

[Scotty - more power. We need to reach escape velocity...]

[waialua359]

I'm going to brag that of the 15 years that I have participated in FIRST, the 2014 Dallas alliance selections had one of the best invitation/acceptance speeches I ever heard.

#1 RoboWranglers Team 148 (Vader Robot) would like to invite Team 359 to the Dark Side.
Team 359 The Hawaiian Kids, gladly accepts joining the Dark Side.

-The one that Texas Torque and 1817 did was pretty awesome as well. Maybe they can chime in. That huge Wrench was just hilarious!

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by waialua359

I'm going to brag that of the 15 years that I have participated in FIRST, the 2014 Dallas alliance selections had one of the best invitation/acceptance speeches I ever heard.

#1 RoboWranglers Team 148 (Vader Robot) would like to invite Team 359 to the Dark Side.
Team 359 The Hawaiian Kids, gladly accepts joining the Dark Side.

-The one that Texas Torque and 1817 did was pretty awesome as well. Maybe they can chime in. That huge Wrench was just hilarious!

148 used to be the kings of the alliance invitations.

[JVN]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

148 used to be the kings of the alliance invitations.

We were told by a few TX "higher-ups" that we were being disrespectful to the other teams at the event, and coming across negatively to other teams, and to the event judges.

Now, we err on the side of normalcy. Though we have indulged ourselves a bit this year.

[notmattlythgoe]

Team 2363 Triple Helix usually responds with "Team 2363 Triple Helix accepts your gracious offer."

[TedG]

Originally Posted by kmusa

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I agree with "clean" and "nice", and I'll ignore "to the point" for now.

Since it's a fundamental misuse of the word (as well as a malapropism), it can't come off as professional, especially to the reporters covering the event.

[Scotty - more power. We need to reach escape velocity...]

Well.... maybe you're right, and that it is a misuse of the word. As I mentioned before, if you look a the synonyms of that word, it sort of makes sense.
Anywho... you (all) will probably continue to hear this phrase until someone from FIRST tells teams to change it... because not every FIRST team is here on CD being educated, and so unknowing teams are just going to copy what they hear or do what they are told is acceptable by other teams.