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Originally Posted by Jay Lundy
You know, I considered not posting, but, seriously, what harm is going to come of this? Some team is not going to build something or come up with some strategy to beat beatty from one small picture. If they wanted to go for the element of surprise, well they still have that. Their robot doesn't look like much from the picture, and it never does, but they always have some crazy design that manages to do everything effectively.
If I released a picture during the build period, then I would see something wrong with that, but no harm can possibly come from this.
And if FIRST didn't want them to be browsed publicly, they never would have uploaded them in the first place. It's not like a zip file magically appears on a webserver. If they just wanted to use it to transfer to multiple locations I'm sure they have private webservers they can use for that.
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Although I agree with you about it coming up on the 4th week of regionals and its not like its late in the build so it doesn't make as much of a difference, you did get into FIRSTs site and get a hold of a file that really isn't supposed to be made public (from what Ive been told) until after The Championship Event. Although it was FIRST's blunder that they did not protect that directory, it was still a bad move. I'm sure the people at FIRST assumed that the participants of the competition would be a bit more gracious and professional when it comes to using their website and not abusing it.
Finally, you did go against a team's wishes and post a picture of their robot. Part of Hammond's tradition is to wait and unveil at the competition. Thats almost like an unwritten rule. If they wanted to unveil their robot now, they would have, but they didnt....they decided to wait. IMO, that really wasn't the smartest thing to do. If the team doesn't want a picture of their unreleased robot, that decision is totally up to them.
Although no major harm came out of this, I'm pretty sure there will be some angry people. Next time use your head and think if what you are going to do is in spirit of the competition.
Thats just my opinion..
-D.J.