[s_forbes]

This thread is much more eye opening than I expected. Much much more.

What seemed like a reasonable strategy alteration by six teams in the finals match to achieve a stretch goal is apparently seen as the most illegitimate, sad, and dishonest thing to happen in a competition all week (all season?). It sure didn't feel like that when it happened. Now my general impression from the rest of the FIRST community is "your match was bad and you should feel bad". Thanks for adding a sour taste to what was probably the highlight of the regional to me.

I want a robotics competition where people aren't obsessed with only playing a match with winning as the ultimate (and only acceptable) goal, and where teams don't complain incessantly about rules and game imperfections and interpretations. I like having fun with robots. Does anyone know of a competition like that? I want to go participate in that one instead.