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Isn't that more of an issue with your own team and being dismissive of other teams' cultures than an issue of how those other teams run?
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I may have worded that badly. It's mostly just the new members who do this, but they make up a sizable portion of the team. But no, I don't think that it's just us dismissing other teams' cultures. When a team that has been around for almost 10 years still has mentors doing most of the work on the robot, and not even trying to engage the students, that team's culture needs a change.
We do try not to judge them, but when we're pit scouting and the students need mentors to explain how the robot works, and say that their drivetrain is "LabView", it's hard not to think that the mentors designed the robot.
Still, I agree with you. We shouldn't dismiss all good teams just because of a few of them, and we do need more cooperation. FIRST is "more than robots", so we should try to put GP and learning over winning. That's what would make FIRST a lot better.