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Posted by Frank Toussaint.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Wheeling and Rolling Meadows and Motorola .

Posted on 6/8/99 1:41 PM MST


In Reply to: perhaps, but posted by michael bastoni on 6/8/99 4:31 AM MST:



A wise man once said
quote:
We need to play the game alot......it's the preparation to playing time
ratio and costs that I wish to address at this moment.

A minimum of 10 weeks prep time (building the machine, the animation,
the CA, the FFL, the fund raising, the 'Community Events' (I so hate that
term)...all for what....FOR 1 or 2 brief moments of thrilling excitement
and INSPIRATION.?

Think about this good people....tens of thousands of dollars, weeks of
planning preparation, and fabrication....for 1 or 2 events....for
18 minutes of machine running time?

It borders on insane.. why do you think it's so hard to recruit teams?
Please ponder the ramifications here....please think about this simple
fact for a day, a week, and then present the remedy you would offer?

Here's mine.

PLAY WITH THE DARN MACHINE MORE.
unquote

The nationals are the ultimate occasion on which the machines are played.
Building the machines without playing them at the nationals is like
a day without sunshine and a day without sunshine is like... night.