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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Are you proposing that we should start random baseless flame wars just to remind people that the scorn of CD will descend upon them if they have even a hint of impropriety? Frankly, I'm starting to feel really bad for anyone with a broken robot heading into selections. Their options are now to decline any picks, lie about their robot's functionality, or be accused of sandbagging.
Here's a hypothetical for the doubters. And I'd appreciate it if you'd actually really consider it. If this exact same situation happened, but the team in question was team 5592 or 30XX or something, would we still be having an argument over them sandbagging their way to the #1 seed? Or would we have accepted the explanation that they thought they were broken and noncompetitive, but managed to pull off some highly impressive repairs over lunch?
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C'mon, of course I am not suggesting random rumors be spread. You should feel really bad for a team with a broken robot heading into elims as they probably won't get to compete with a robot on which the team spent a lot of time. If you are going to tell teams you are damaged beyond repair, you shouldn't accept an invitation.
If team 3XXX were at the center of this, and they were good enough to be MSC champs, then of course it'd be a big deal! I don't have any reason to favor/spite 217.