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Originally Posted by Kate771
I have pride. .. to have another team ...humiliate me by scoring for me, makes me lose respect for myself and my robot and alliance partners,
...the rules make it so that your robot .. cannot even have the dignity of losing respectfully, I don't much like the rule.
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This sounds a bit like some weird Klingon or gladiator form of pride, where a warrior would rather be put to death by an opponent that led away on their feet as a loser.
In engineering you cannot guarantee results, all you can do is guarantee your best effort will be applied to the project. I have been on projects that did not turn out well, I have been on projects that were cancelled. We still had end-of-project parties, and we still had the same level of pride in our work
because we did the best we could under the circumstances.
Besides, sometimes no matter how good you are someone else will one-up you and do better. Sometimes pride is great. Sometimes humility is called for. No one can humiliate you if you are already humble in the presence of greatness.