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Re: Clash of Objectives.

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Originally Posted by chapman1 View Post
1) If "winning" is the primary goal of a team, then that is at odds with "co-opertition", because such a team will most likely only aid those teams not capable of beating them.

2) I have seen way too many mentors from other teams who not only bully and berate their students for what they consider poor performance, but who also who try to bully other student driver teams into roles that will not benefit a Qualification Alliance - but rather, roles that will showcase their team to the detriment of that Alliance. Those mentors should be relegated to being football coaches.

I applaud and support any Championship configuration that is not modeled on winning at any cost over that which rewards and applauds the stated values of FIRST.
1. Completely and utterly false.

2. Those "mentors" dont deserve to hold the title no matter the sport; not even football.
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