disaster in israel regional

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by MikePres

Sorry, but you are wrong. there was a fight between 2672's crowd and security. Our mentor was at the field at the time and tried to take pictures for future reference and he got punched by someone for no reason.

My team (3088) was part of the alliance that lost by a coin toss. yes, we were frustrated but i'm proud of my teammates for not losing their calm and not joining the mess that want there. Moreover, we talked to the great FIRST Israel staff and asked for their apology (even though we did nothing) and thanked them for all they did for us on those 3 days.

I'm proud of my teammates for playing fair all along, no matter if we were 50th in the 2nd day or 2nd in the 3rd day. We didn't join the "Misgav Rebellion" and kept our cool all the time, although a lot of bad things happend to us.
- 3076 ate our food, stole our drink cans, put their stickers all over our belongings, even though we told them not to. they even had the courage to ask us to take them to our alliance. GOD!
- A detonator was thrown into our pit and exploded after the event and some of our students were hurt. I hope that FIRST Israel will find the responsible and punish them as needed. Who brings firecrackers to a robotics event?!
- Our medallions were taken by another team (probably). When we came to take our medallions we found out that somebody already took them. What the hell?!
- As Jon said, the Coopertition award was not handed out, and we understand why. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be ours...

Other highlights:
- 44 penalty in one game(!) (not ours)
- Our bot failed at almost every system we built so we cut down the whole thing and were left only with an unworking kicker, brilliant autonomous and strategies. We finished 2nd and we didn't even try to lose. As i mentioned we got to the semi's with 2672 and 3065. We picked them for strategic reasons, knowing only their bots, we didn't care who were the crews. it's a shame it ended that way...
- We respected the request of 1690 and 2630 not to pick them so they could be with each other. we are humans after all and this game is not only strategy for us, even though that could have been the most dangerous alliance ever. it's a shame how many teams tried to convince us to break that partnership just to make the life of others easier. it's a shame imo that 2672 did break that alliance in the end...
- We cheered for almost every team that was on the field, no matter on which side it was.

I hope that FIRST will di their HW for next year...

BTW:
Michelle Graf <3 (best MC in the world )

Wow... I'm not sure I've ever seen or heard of an FRC event (official, or offseason) with more problems and disregard for the values that make FRC what it is. I'm sure that there were many teams at the Israeli Regional that "get FIRST" and I'm sure they were appalled at some of what was going on.

Hopefully FIRST Israel gets the problems worked out for next year. It seems like from the sound of one of the earlier posts the Israeli Military is involved with FRC there. Perhaps they can give FIRST Israel clearance to use the system from US/Canada Regionals as is.