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Re: Teams that do not bag their robots

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Originally Posted by Don Wright View Post
So...make the system more time consuming and complex for the >99% of the teams in FIRST that don't cheat?

If we all believe that cheating is so widespread that we need to start making the process more complex and secure, then fundamentally, at the core of this program, we are losing.
I agree, I think if we want FIRST to keep the kind of awesome culture it does, we need to show teams that we trust them. When I started in FRC, what absolutely impressed me the most was the trusting, kind, helpful culture. If we have to start implementing all sorts of rules like that to keep teams from cheating, we're already in a very bad place.
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