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Re: Where's the Gracious Professionalism?

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Originally Posted by J-Blondie View Post
I brought up SVR because it seems to be what everyone is the most angry about. And like I have said a bunch now, winning is great. It matters in a lot of ways as I highlighted in my original post. But winning or losing out doesn't need to turn you into an ugly vengeful person either. I'm going to stop replying at this point because I'm just repeating myself and I seem to be misunderstood about a lot of what I'm trying to say. That or most people just don't want to hear it.

Final words: Just be nice to each other, have compassion and deal with problems that may or may not arise. Mistakes happen, learn from them. Terrible things happen and hurt EVERYONE INVOLVED. Just think before you post and remember what you are representing when you do post.
I just want to note the fact that the issue at SVR wasn't even about winning. It was about a team being forced to sit out their final match of the season due to an unreasonable decision by a referee. And while I agree that winning is not the only reason to participate in FRC, I would make the argument that having the opportunity to play is. The reason we have a robotics competition is for robots to compete. And when a team is unjustly deprived of that opportunity, I consider it an outrage, and I think it would be more graciously professional not to express a certain measure of dissatisfaction in sympathy for a team who was deprived of the opportunity to compete in their last match of the year.
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