2006 Silicon Valley Regional

[Bill Gold]

At the risk of derailing this thread completely…

Originally Posted by TyffaneeSue

Looks as though we're not allowed to post unless we can spout happy talk? Might be worthwhile to step back and ask yourself why you need to resort to censorship to prevent discussion of issues that need to be addressed.

I thought it was a major insult to give the top award to a team that certainly did not embody the spirit of FIRST--unless FIRST strives to be the robotic counterpart to Enron. (Perhaps that IS the message here?)

I would have been fine with Gunn getting the Comeback Team of the Year award. But the Chair award, as with many of the other awards, seemed to be based on politics.

This website is private and may censor posts as moderators in agreement choose. The bottom line on whether a post is accepted resides with the team who hosts this private forum, so if you feel that you were improperly censored by a moderator who doesn't belong to that team you should take it up with one who does, or Brandon.

Saying a team doesn't embody the spirit of FIRST and that they're something related to a company whose executives (in the eyes of many) made a ton of money and left its employees with next to nothing sounds like a bunch of libel coming from someone who will not identify themselves. This whole topic (GRT last season) has been stricken from ChiefDelphi before and I wouldn't be surprised if your posts were deleted. I’m not as quick as some are to delete posts, so this post of mine may disappear in an attempt to purge your comments from the website. I’ve got no problem with that if other moderators feel it’s necessary, but you can rest assured that I won't be using my status as a moderator to keep you quiet on this topic. That's a decision for others to make who don't have a dog in this fight.

There is no such thing as a Comeback Team of the Year Award. That's something you should take up with FIRST. It kind of sounds like an "Overcoming Obstacles" Award, though, and I don't really think that you'd want to think of yourself as an obstacle for a robotics team now would you? Especially since leading to the prevention of students being able to participate in this program also doesn't seem to be in the spirit of FIRST, which you so nobly claim to be a champion of. I feel that being able to take responsibility for your actions and statements is something that one should learn in this program, and I’m very disappointed that there are forum trolls here who would sit back behind completely indistinguishable forum names and blast a team without fear of scrutiny. Out of curiosity which disgruntled student or parent are you?

I’ll start up or post in a “2006 Thanks / Congrats SVR” thread later on today after I’ve had a chance to organize my thoughts on that topic.