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What concerns me the most is that someone who finds out who or thinks they did will think it is their job to play hero.

All it takes is someone to start writing letters or going after this person professionally outside of the parameters of what FIRST deems required.

FIRST is the biggest victim here. Not even the teams. There is a valid tangible dollar amount of damage done here. Beyond FIRST these teams have no one to turn to ask for compensation. I really think it is FIRST who should decide how they dish out the punishment and we should respect that. If we do anything more I think you are starting to stray into a place where you put your personal concerns above FIRST.

I personally have seen what happens when just a few people decide they know better how something should work and will take it upon themselves to go that extra step to have things a way they prefer. It rarely ends up the way they thought because they might not speak for the majority who has a less personal investment in their more personal motives.

I can only point out that we as members of a community are dedicated to gracious professionalism and activity to support that which itself represents that ideal. If this person became known and a few people decided to go even a little too far we as a community would be tarnished but it would then be a self fulfilling cycle.

Let us move forward into the future. Let us additionally focus this extra outrage on the continuing risk that someone might know someone that might try to do this again. If you know that someone is specifically intending to interfere in match operations and has taken action to actually make that interference happen please tell someone. Much of the annoyance with this could have been mitigated if someone tapped this person on the shoulder sooner and discussed it. Security is everyone's responsibility. Not just AirTight or FIRST. To me it really is the same as any number of more common safety hazards that crop up all the time.