[codeoftherobot]

I felt that at the Silicon Valley regional, Dean Kamen was trying to stress that FIRST is not battle bots and that people are beginning to lose the vision of what FIRST was first started as. His tone of voice was as though he was sad at everyone for their misaction and disregard for G. P. Next year the rules are probably going to be a lot stricter upsetting those who thought that by disabling the other robot, they could then win. Being part of a rookie team, I have no previous knowledge of how teams acted in the past. All I know that support for other teams seemed really lacking at the regionals. People were barely supporting eachother (e.g. clapping for others, cheering even if their robot wasn't on the field). To me there was a lack of G. P. and I think teams should reevaluate what is truly important at a regional other than winning by any means necessary.