[Andrew]

Another possible "punishment" would be to have some respected person at FIRST sit down with a team which has been caught in a major rules violation and explain exactly what GP is, how this team's activities are moving counter to FIRST's mission and goals, and suggest how the team might improve in the future.

1. This would deprive the team of about 1 hour of competition time.
2. You might actually reach some of the team members (if not the team leaders).
3. The fact that the entire team disappeared for an hour would be fairly telling to the rest of the competition.

Another punishment...have the team members write out "I will not cheat again" 100 times and post the documents in a designated "hall of shame" area.

The only down-side to this punishment is that some engineer will design an "auto-pen" and have it do the writing for him.