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Originally Posted by Jared Russell

While several people have reported that our team (and others) were threatened for protesting the decision, I want to make it clear that Team 254 did NOT experience anything of the sort. We are confident that no representative of FIRST would ever say something like this.

Every other detail in this thread was observed firsthand by those involved, but to reiterate, Team 254 was never threatened by anyone. I would guess that a volunteer or competitor speculated that this was the case and unfortunately that rumor grew legs.

My apologies, I did not mean to contribute to spreading rumors. I've added an anecdote to my initial post as well.