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Re: Ungracious professionalism at internationals?

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
If you're going to decline invitations, you don't need to bother going around telling anyone you're broken. The only reason to warn the selecting teams of your robot's problems is so they have the best possible information in order for them to decide whether or not to have you on their alliance. The simple fact that Paul came to inform you of the situation should be a sufficient clue that they will accept if invited.

This seems like an obvious answer, but as some people are still asking the question maybe it isn't.
IMHO if you go around telling teams that you are broken you are essentially telling teams that you are declining. And by doing so are saving both teams from being "embarrassed" by both being picked and having to decline due to robot malfunctions, and picking a robot who is malfunctioning.

Now if you say in your announcement to teams that you are broken but will accept in hopes of getting the robot fixed in time, that is different. I was not in my teams pits when Paul came and told my team, even though we were not in the top 15, so I don't know what he exactly said. Paul has addressed it and so has members of 1538 and 1986, I feel the topic of blaming/accusing them is over. People should now talk about how to handle these situations in the future, because it will happen again, it just might not be a big name team like 217.
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