[servo175]

It gets me really aggravated when i hear so many people dwelling on the few problems of other teams. There is a big deal being made about this incident of ungracious professionalism and its a downer. Even if, hypothetically, this team decided to try to pull that off at the nationals they would end up losing their match, probably be disqualified from the event, and more importantly lose all respect from FIRST and its teams.

I agree that some teams do not understand what gracious professionalism is and do not completely grasp the full concept of FIRST but complaining about it is not a good enough way to fix it. The only way to fix it is to have your team display those qualities.

As Dean Kamen would say "You get what you celebrate." If we celebrate what FIRST stands for and celebrate gracious professionalism other teams will learn from that and have no choice but to do the same. You cant sit someone down and try to explain to them what FIRST is all about. The only way for them to understand is by seeing it and then end up gaining this huge respect for it. Once you really can respect the whole FRC then they will want
to be a part of it. FIRST is not easy to sell but it sells itself.