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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

At champs last year I went to every* team in Hopper and asked them 2 or 3 questions. "how much do you weigh", if the answer to the weight was really close to 120 i asked if they could remove any weight. and "if i give you something to put on your robot would you put it on?" Which is basically asking if teams are willing to be cheesecaked but i wanted the teams to really think about what I was asking.

I did this all while not wearing a 2826 shirt to get honest answers. Every team that the question was asked seriously to (see below) that said no to being cheesecaked was automatically removed from consideration if they didn't have elite level can burglars.

I'm not saying that cheesecaking will happen to the degree it had last year. I'm just pointing out that teams should honestly consider having it done to their robot after an honest and humble review of their robots capabilites (which by Championships should be blatantly obvious)

And no I'm not saying that you were incorrect in saying no flat out, I'm just adding more to the conversation of teams who say no but really should say yes.



*Yes I asked 987 and 33 and 948 and etc even though I new the answer would be no.

You make a good point. If we had been in Hopper, we probably would have considered your question. Unfortunately, the way the question was asked felt so impersonal, almost rude.

Let me elaborate: The way I was asked about cheesecaking sounded as though they were meaning "Oh, we don't care if your robot is any good, we just need to cheesecake someone. Are you able to do that?" If the person who asked had cared a little bit more to ask about our robot the way we built it rather than just cheesecake, I would have been more lenient to talk. But I felt no sense of respect or interest from them.