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Originally Posted by bduddy
I wonder if FIRST is trying to gently(?) nudge the "powerhouse" teams towards improving the general level of play, which really is shockingly low at a lot of regionals. 254 got the Gracious Professionalism award at SVR largely for, according to the speech, spending a great deal of time in the pits helping other teams. While I'm not questioning their motives, this probably helped them as well, given that they had a very good robot and could then expect better partners in their matches. Obviously improving the overall level of FRC by a significant amount takes a lot longer than a weekend, but....
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We (1551) got the Gracious Professionalism Award at FLR largely for spending a great deal of time in the pits helping other teams--several of which later kicked our asses on the field.
We didn't try to earn an award, we just did what we assume every other team would do, and what many teams have done for us when we needed help. I'm certain--CERTAIN--that the Poofs were not trying to win an award, and were not trying to increase their own chances of winning.
You know what's awesome? When teams who sink so much time, effort, and energy into the game can at least compete on the field. You know what sucks? When they can't. So when you have the opportunity to help them compete, you do it, because it's the right thing to do. It has nothing whatsoever to do with this metagame or anything else.