[Conor Ryan]

I didn't like the type of cheesecake at Worlds.
2011 style cheesecake, where robots shared Minibots? Awesome. I can't get enough of that. It didn't reconfigure the robot in the eyes of the community, it was just a neighbor helping a neighbor.

Throwing the robot that students built with mentors and teachers in their community and proudly showed off to sponsors and schools in the name of a last ditch effort to get picked? This is questionable ethics. Would I do it if I was in the situation? Sure, its a survival tactic, and as a mentor my students would be down in the dumps and it would be terrible to say no. Should it be against the rules? Yes. Keep the Build Season Sacred.

I would also like FRC to engage communities like Robot In 3 Days to maybe work out better guidance to better keep an "Innovation Sanctuary" during the build season (ie - Release RI3D material after week 5).


Now this is starting to sound like the Financial World and Regulation. Do financial institutions like making lots of money? Yes. Should we be allowed to do it certain ways? No.