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Where did the fun go?
After browsing this forum, and actually having been approached by a team at our regional wanting to maximize a score, I have concluded that people in FIRST are starting to care a little too much about winning, and not enough about inspiration, fun, and fair play. The idea of FIRST is to teach young people about the ways of science of technology, not how to find loopholes in a system to get ahead. Good, fair competition is fun. Win or lose, if you go out knowing that you tried your hardest in a fair setting, there is no way you should walk away from the competition without some sort of valuable lesson learned. Fixing matches only promotes the idea of taking the easy way out instead of fighting through the good and bad, and learning from it. Lets not make this game anything more than it is, good, healthy, fun competition.
Good Luck,
Andy Grady
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