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Originally Posted by aaronbr28040
If you expect to go onto the field with a robot that tips over easily or can be pushed around and you don't think other teams will take advantage of it think again. I don't think that there are any teams that would intentionally damage a robot, but the robots are very powerful and are easy to do damage with. This past season we had a very strong pushing bot and it got us in trouble with the refs a few times. We flipped somewhere around 8 bots during the season. We weren't trying to do it on purpose, but the robots with exposed wheels would just climb right up our frame and flip over. The ref told us we needed to calm it down a little and we tried our best to keep from tipping other robots. You feel bad when your team destroys or damages another teams bot. If our team damaged another teams robot I would expect my team to go help with repairs. Its part of gracious professionalism. You have to help out other teams and build those lasting friendships with them. The thing is, you never know when they might choose you as an alliance partner.
-Aaron
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We had a match with team 67 and got tangled up with them and got judo thrown the the floor. They came over to our pits and apologized. We were in the next match with them and scored our highest point total of the year.
One thing that is very unique about FIRST compared to other sporting events is that getting along with other is of paramount importance because you actually have to work with otehr teams. So if you go around burning bridges you will find yourself in need of the burn cream yourself.