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Originally Posted by Tiki
I'm one of those people who would rather "golf clap" for 8 hours, I think the competitions should be relaxing, yes I have worked on that robot for six weeks, I have stayed at some strange place until the wee hours of the morning, the last thing i want to do after those six weeks is see an unruly mob cheering for a robot that they and the other 50 kids on their team built (or should i say the 15 engineers  ). Unlike other huge teams, my team is limited to only 20 people, around 6 or 7 of whom actually actively participate, so yeah, the work to person ratio is much higher on our team than on some other teams. The size of our team makes it so that even if we cheered, no one would hear it anyway. My team is not not spirited, we are just quiet and reserved and always has been. There are no dedicated scouts on my team, we have to take time off fixing the robot to scout and if people are standing up, blocking the game or the scores, thats a big deal. |
All 45 team-bashing aside, I think your comments have quite a few holes in them.
First, you stated that this was during the awards, not during the matches.
Second, the size of your team has nothing to do with the size of your heart.
Third, since you keep complaining about how many people are on your own team, but are quick to throw the resources of others into play. Exactly where do you stand on this? There are other threads about this issue, it doesn't need to be discussed here.
Fourth, I'd like some proof that this was an unruly mob. I have yet to see any team that could be construed as a 'mob', much less an unruly one. If you were so irked by this incident that you absolutely HAD to speak out about it, especially after outside contact with the FIRST world is discouraged on your team, prove it. I'd like to see a video of this unruly mob, perhaps a picture or two, or someone else who can verify that they asked this team to sit down, and they did not comply.
Also, if you're looking for sympathy, especially based on the absolute lack of professionalism you show, you'll get none from me. This isn't "judging someone else's enthusiasm", and it can't be boiled down to that. I have taken my grandma to competitions- and I'll tell you she said she had never seen anything so energetic and enthusiastic (this after she called the rest of the family to come for Saturday's events).
Would she be proud if she knew I was calling out other teams on their enthusiasm and spirit for engineering and science, or that I was questioning the integrity and value of the education different teams give their students by their different methods of building the robot? I guess you'll have to go home and ask your grandmother, folks- mine's pretty proud of me, is yours proud of you?