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Originally Posted by Street_dreamZ
If the goal of FIRST is to inspire, then the ref who pulled this one did the exact opposite. Things like this make teams regret ever participating. 987 surely worked extremely hard putting this bot together, just like all other teams, and their robot came out great. To see their hard work ruined by an egregious, hasty move made from a judge is awful.
I'm sad.
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People need to realize that things like this happen everywhere throughout FIRST. And it's really, really bad. Although this is a competition, people need to realize that the most important thing is the students learning and having a good time. Mentor built robots are awful. Not awful technically always, but awful as they ruin students ability to learn. Many teams have mentors who disrespect students, or don't let any students do the work. The thing is, there's also teams who don't, and we need to be able to distinguish from the two.
When it comes down to the competition, what's more important? Shutting down a robot without notifying the team, and possibly
discouraging the students from STEM careers?
Or giving them a bit to sort it out, and allowing them to run the robot
that they worked hard on for 6 weeks.
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Originally Posted by Cory
The volunteer thing is always a cop out. They're volunteers...that don't have to be invited back next year.
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Valid point. In all honesty, I'm pretty sure that if a volunteer is being un-GP, someone would gladly take their spot, say as ref.