Thread: "Spare Parts" Rules Are Broken
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Unread 05-04-2004, 09:03
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Re: "Spare Parts" Rules Are Broken
The bottom line is that FIRST is about Gracious Professionalism.

FIRST is about having fun, building robots, and pushing engineering into the mainstream community. Gracious Professionalism is about being fair to other teams, following the rules, and being helpful to the other teams who may be at a disadvantage.

If a team breaks the rules, they really don't deserve to be a part of FIRST, but with gracious professionalism, if someone slaps you, turn the other cheek.

FIRST could spend half of its money being a rules disciplinarian, but FIRST is about inspiring students, not building a police state.

But I do believe teams should get penalized if it is discovered they are in the practice of this. FIRST of all (heh heh), they should get no award, and the team leaders/sponsors should get a letter from FIRST telling them that their team cheated. In addition, they should be disqualified. In addition, other FIRST teams should be encouraged to report this action, because FIRST is about Gracious Professionalism, and breaking rules simply ISN'T Graciously Professional.
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