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Re: Drivers' Meeting

The drivers meeting was good, in the beginning. Dr. Brown did a wonderful job at doing what he is supposed to do in explaining the basic layout and gist of things as per the national event. He answered many Chiefdelphi questions promptly and concisely. However, when it came to the live QandA period, I was shocked. So many questions asked had already been answered or were what I consider common knowledge. There were however a few diamonds in the rough. On of which was from a member of team 4 who asked if an appendage broke and was the first part of said robot to contact another robot (being outside of the bumper zone) would there be a penalty. There answer was yes, a penalty would ensue. I don't know why I typed that entire question out, just an example I guess of one of the good questions.
I ended up having to leave early however when a member from a team not to be mentioned here, repeatedly asked for non bumper zone interaction clarification. Many of his questions were to the point of "if I repeatedly hit an opponent in an area where they were outside of the bumper zone will they continue to rack up penalty points?" I have no problem with the rules, they haven't changed, but this person's questioning over and over which lead everyone there to believe that this is their game plan for tomorrow (whether it is or isn't I will have to see) disgusted me, that is when my drive partner and I left.

Teams, drivers, coaches, read the rules and play with gracious professionalism in mind. I understand that the game is the game, but lets not turn this game to a 2005 who gets the most penalties.

Maybe I am over-reacting, maybe not. I have had a long day of making my robot the best SCORER (not de-scorer) it can be. I am off to watch match video and sleep.


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