[Kevin Sevcik]

Perhaps you might want to take this to FIRST-a-holics Anonymous instead? I don't know that airing your team's dirty laundry in public will really help anything. I'm certain that it won't help anything at all if this other team member comes across this thread.

The way I usually look at these things is that what's happened has happened. At this point, you have a decision to make, stay angry at this person until and during your regional competition and do nothing about your robot, or start looking for and implementing solutions to the problem. You have/had FIX-IT windows in which you can make replacement, spare, or upgrade parts for your robot, so all hope is not lost. Your team still has a chance to pull together and recreate/rebuild your arm in the next few weeks. If you can't do this, you still have other options. Racing robots are doing surprisingly well this year. You could make plans to strip down your robot into a lean racing machine and focus on autonomous programming to score as many points as possible during autonomous mode. I can guarantee you that whatever regional you're headed to, the teams there will be very willing to help get your robot back in shape if you ask them. You could modify your robot to be a herder instead of a lifting robot, the options are endless, but only if your team can make a clean break with the past. The more you cling to the misfortunes that have already befallen you, the less you'll be able move forward from here.