Before competition this year I told the students on my team that when they go to competition they may meet teams that are very driven, and sometimes that drive can come off as rude. You will see this in any competition you go to. It's good to be the better person and the one thing I make sure they hear is that No one person is better than you and vise versa.
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Originally Posted by Mc Kenna
Every year our mentors and students are a under a microscope and bad behavior is remembered a very long time, by FIRST, while good behavior is somehow easier to forget when it comes to those powerhouses. None of us are perfect and during a stressful weekend, its not hard to catch people at a bad moment. That is not an excuse, but it is a matter of fact, think how many students/parents/mentors/ect go to their pits the chances that one of a couple hundred catches the wrong person at the wrong time is pretty good. However I agree that in many cases writing the team an email first is good first move over just going to CD
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I think this kind of thing really stems out of simple jealousy. I really feel that some teams "don't like" other teams because they do so well. In all honesty, when I was a student I was very jealous of some other teams simply because they do so well. When I met one of these teams the weekend of ship this year. I was blown away at how nice, welcoming, and helpful they were. I was expecting them to be rude and very isolated. The one thing I hadn't done was actually meet them and get to know them.
So if you feel that a team isn't nice, really just get to know them! Plus like Mc Kenna said Competition can be very stressful and we all have some random tendency to catch people in bad moments and we only remember those moments, not the good ones where they help us...