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Originally Posted by JesseK
However, I think the spirit of this rule is to not only keep teams from cheating pre-season, but it is also so that a group of students that passes through a veteran program do not miss out on HOW or WHY something was designed a certain way. If you design XYZ unbeatable drive train in 2004 for a strategy, those students will have moved on by 2008. If that same team simply keeps using the same design & strategy, the new students greatly miss out on the design process, and that is NOT in the spirit of FIRST.
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FIRST's philosophy has always been live and let live, when it comes to teams inspiring. They have never taken a position in the past on the whole student-mentor debate, and view all teams equally, whether the students never touch the robot or the mentors never touch the robot.
I can't imagine that they would suddenly try to tell teams how to inspire their students. The rules should be there only to restrict the competition, not to have oversight on whether or not the teams are effectively inspiring their students. If a team wants to run themselves in the manner you listed, then frankly, that's their prerogative, and nobody has the right to tell them they're wrong.