There can be no REJECTIONS!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by Karthik Kanagasabapathy, Other on team #188, Woburn Robotics, from Woburn C.I..

Posted on 3/29/99 12:57 PM MST


In Reply to: ''I just want to play ball'' - Shoeless Joe
posted by Raul on 3/29/99 1:56 AM MST:



: I would like also like to thank the Cosmo Force and Woburn Robotics teams for accepting our alliance. Your teams are a group of classy people. I feel bad we did not get Woburn Robotics a chance to play in a match.

: Excuse the long and incoheren

t messages - it is 2:45 AM and I could not sleep.

: Good luck to all and I wish you fruitful alliances.

: Raul

We from Woburn Robotics also wanted to thank you very much for giving us
the chance to participate in the elimination matches with such

great teams
as WildStang and Cosmosaurus. We hope the great relationship between our teams continues
throughout the finals in Florida.

Karthik K.
University of Waterloo
Pure Mathematics

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Posted by Brian Beatty, Engineer on team #71, Team Hammond, from Hammond Schools and Beatty Machine.

Posted on 3/29/99 5:43 PM MST


In Reply to: ''I just want to play ball'' - Shoeless Joe
posted by Raul on 3/29/99 1:56 AM MST:



My last message was not intended to stir up controversy. I'm with you Raul, I want to have a good time. However, my totally sleepless night came on Friday after the first day of Q-matches. After all the pre-alliance BS that Baxter, Motorola, and Beatt
y had to go through, I was not having a good time. Hopefully, FIRST does make a modification to the rules to greatly reduce the awkwardness, game-playing, and discomfort of the selection process. That is the intention of these messages. But if the rules a
re not changed, that's OK. We're with you Greg(Baxter)and Raul, we are not going to play the political game at Nationals. If we're fortunate enough to play in the E-matches and
it's the 290th seed, that's OK, we're going to have fun and try to win.


As for throwing matches, I did not intend that to be the main reason for changing the rules-the selection process is the #1 reason. There are all kinds of messages now of people reacting to the obvious potential for us to throw match 6 for a sure high pic
k. What concerned me was the first person to mention it on Friday(I'm naive) was our soon-to-be valedictorian driver. He is a fine young man, and probably would never have done it, but it was there. While this sort of thing occurs in sports all the time(
future draft picks,ect.), it should be minimized if possible. Agreed, under my proposed idea, it will not be eliminated.

Enough for now, my head is also spinning(especially since I just finished watching the game films of #47 vs. #111-WOW!!!!)

Thanks
everyone,

Brian Beatty

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Posted by Brandon, Student on team #217, Team Macomb, from MMSTC and Ford.

Posted on 3/29/99 7:44 PM MST


In Reply to: 'I just want to play ball' - Shoeless Joe posted by Raul on 3/29/99 1:56 AM MST:



Right on, my friend. We should be having fun, not nit-picking the rules