[MechEng83]

A few things:

First, I'm glad that Frank takes the time to give a post-event analysis. It's a good example for how teams should wrap up their season and look to maintain the good and improve the bad.

Paper Airplanes:
It's fun. Kids are bored. Endless speeches by people in suits is boring. Waiting for long periods of time is boring. To my knowledge, nothing official from FIRST has ever come out about throwing planes until today. The only commentary I ever recall is the Air Force general in 2011 stating he had a job for whoever threw the plane all the way to the stage.
Now that there is something official about stopping the planes, that will reduce the number, but it won't stop it. There have been official rules for a while about saving seats, yet year after year teams do not follow this. Enforcement is really the only way to ensure this stops. FIRST hasn't been good about enforcing off-field rules. It seems they believe FIRST students/adults are better and will self-police and act with GP. This is not the case. We're all people. Some people follow rules, some ignore them.