Back to Defense for a minute.

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Posted by Bill Beatty at 04/28/2001 3:59 PM EST


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In Reply to: Back to Defense for a minute.
Posted by Andy Grady on 04/27/2001 8:11 PM EST:



Andy

No need to apologize. I am sure you are calling em as you see em. I am just trying to convince the folks at FIRST to see em my way. I agree that our fantastic success this year taints my comments, but it is no secret that I have been campaigning for the last six years against so called defensive play.

I find your comments very interesting because I would have never considered Gael Force as a defensive team. You folks are usually very tough, and I remember well your last match perfect score at the Rumble two years ago to beat us out of the number one seed.

There are two matches over the years that come to my mind that reinforce my feelings. One match was in the quarterfinals at the Nationals in 1997. It was machine vs machine back then. Within the first 10 seconds we were hooked by the other team to prevent us from our goal topping move. For the rest of the match, all 1 minute and 50 seconds of it, the two machines were locked together and we couldn't score a point. Not my idea of a robot contest.

The other match that comes to mind is your last match in the finals last year. You guys had a super robot that could score lots of points, but you were blocked and pinned for almost a full minute to loose the championship. Again, not my idea of a robot contest.

Regards,

Bill Beatty