[ZACH P.]

Neither one should be manditory. I have the feeling that a lot of teams do not have the resources, be they money, manpower, energy, time, or whatever to do these things. Many teams dont have sponsors, and are just managing to scrape up enough to getr a working robot, or there are rookie teams or likewise who simply cannot do chairmans-type work and compete in a robotics competition simultaneously for whatever reason. making these things manditory might stretch some teams so thin that they collapse, effectively lessoning the range and impact of FIRST.