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Re: Rookie Team impressions from Kettering

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Keep in mind that the rules aren't created to hurt any teams/alliances. They are challenges that need to be overcome. Rather than get upset about the rule, the better route may be to plan how you can avoid the penalty in future matches.
Absolutely. I don't have a problem with the rule because the benefit of FIRST is not in winning the competition anyway. The rules could all be whacked and it still wouldn't matter to me. I'd do it all again next year just for the benefit to the kids of the design/build phase!

As a spectator to matches though, I did think it would have been more exciting to watch if the unintentional penalties hadn't decided so many matches. Again, though, this isn't a sport like football or basketball, so if the kinks aren't all worked out of the rules, so what? The game and rules change every year and the competiton phase is only a few days, so trying to make the matches similar to sporting events in this way is unrealistic. Were the competition phase run like most sports where teams play for an entire season, the rules would be more of an issue, but for a few days? Not a problem, as far as I'm concerned.
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