i didnt like this years game....please read

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Posted by Travis Covington at 04/10/2001 2:05 AM EST


Student on team #115, MVRT, from Monta Vista High School and 3com - NASA-Xilinx-Hitachi Data Systems.



all in all i had a great time this year at nationals...the game was fun to play and the people were awesome...

i remember posts disussing winning and losing and the mention of failing....when you fail, noone wins. A game with a low score means a game with little applause/cheering/enjoyment.

This years game stunk in that regard. There was always failure, and not always a winner, although there were NO losers, it made it depressing to see teams just flat out do poorly and in return have no support and noone to feel happy for.

This became very evident in finals..and is resulting in my post.

teams who were facing eachother had alot of support for eachother, alot of love, and alot of respect. But there was still that urge to win. This lead to cheering at the wrong times by the wrong alliance.

People would cheer after the other alliances ball would fall off a goal, or if the team would lose hold of a goal. As i heard this cheering it made me wonder how much FIRST thought about the impact of winning. People were cheering when the opposing alliance screwed up!! They would scream as the score was posted..."alliance 4 with 128 points"....."wooohoooo" then it would die out slowly after people realized wht they were doing...but the same thing happened ALL throughout finals

that is no fun at all....this game is an excellent one in the sense that all teams work together and work toward the same score but when you have the situation this year it makes it hard to not wish bad things about the other team.. in this game people WANTED the other team not to lose BUT TO FAIL.

im sorry to rant and rave but i feel very strongly about this situation and i know many people feel the same way. im not trying to piss anyone off, im just writing this to inform people of what i noticed and just how disturbing I thought it was.

i hope FIRST realizes that this happened and that the need to find a solution.

-TC