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Re: Blocking the lane with an ubertube in autonomous

From this thread it seems apparent that some people here think that any team can build a great robot that is as good as their own and anything less is a design failure.

I have been noticing a trend in FRC that I find quite disturbing, that trend is how competitive it has become, with teams focusing on how to hinder an opponent's robot (this is different than defense) rather than optimize their own. To me this whole idea seems contradictory to Gracious Professionalism, simply because the intent is to inhibit other teams from doing well, not by building a necessarily better robot but by using a "loophole" in the rules.

I am sad to see that people now see FIRST as a competition to WIN by any means necessary. I don't understand how people in FIRST, especially mentors, can be so focused on winning.

It doesn't matter for my team (our robot floor loads), but if if I were on a team with a robot that couldn't floorload I would be upset to have people here are calling something I worked hard on a flawed or inferior design or even a mistake. I am appalled by this "new" culture that has developed in FIRST.

Maybe I am wrong for thinking so highly of FIRST's values and the people involved with FIRST. In my opinion such a tactic shouldn't even be considered, again that's my opinion
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