[rcmolloy]

I know John that at the bottom of the "haters" message you attached, I mentioned how I envied your team and the status your "TEAM" puts themselves at. You even said in the message that the robot is a student-mentor collaboration and together you complete the best thing that your resources can. Which actually is one hell of a good machine that people believe is created solely by mentors and not students.

Something like this just really pisses me off because kids aren't putting in the effort to try and be like 148, 1114, and multiple other teams. It seems like jealousy is a large part of today's society and it is just ridiculous to see this happen while gracious professionalism is the most apparent lesson to be learned.

Like a typical sport or game played, students and other teams should want to beat the team on the field and not anywhere else. The only way to do that is to look at the great teams that we see today. Learning about what they did and created will give you a huge advantage every year. I know John and the Robowranglers are even gracious enough to give out their final CADs every year so that teams can take them as reference.

If you have nothing good to say about the other teams then don't. If anything, you should be asking them for help and assistance during the competition.

Thank you for posting this John.