I don't think telling students they have to silently comply with circumstances they weren't aware of until someone let's them know is really the message I want to send them into the world with. Especially when someone actually knows the circumstances and conceals them.
If someone did that to my business under the guise of contract law - perhaps I wouldn't care to make anything for them in the future because the contract seemingly means very little to them.
There's such a thing as constructive criticism.
I'd like to think FIRST can encourage some reasoned debate.
Perhaps educate in how to reasonably debate.
I don't always expect FIRST will respond to criticism.
I do expect FIRST will strive to be, well, first?
That, of course, means sometimes FIRST will have an off year.
Keep in mind that I don't care who wins. So that changes my threshold for annoyance when it comes to game time shenanigans.