[John Gutmann]

i somewhat i agree, but then again what pushes us more than competittion, if no one cared who won or lost teams wouldn't try as hard, though it is indeed about the 2 golden words of first, gracious professionalism, there is still a desire among teams to push their hardest for bragging rights, and yea it is good to be a gracious professional but that isn't how it is in the real world, yea they are trying trying to improve our out look on how we treat others but basically what being a gracious professinal is, is to be good at losing

if we weren't good at losing there would be alot more insults and lack of attenion towards the winner, we would dispised them rather then going to them for help

and yes even though we don't all win awards we are all still winners, i mean come on not everyhigh school in america has robotics teams, so your getting the chance to work with real engineers and build a ROBOT!!!!