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Originally Posted by John Hooper
Well, if they intentionally broke the rule...
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In this game, point penalties are assigned based on actions, not on intent. We don't want refs basing their calls on assumptions about a team's intentions, do we?
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...FIRST does not alter rules just because they work against the entire purpose of FIRST.
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Whoa, that's excessively harsh, and totally uncalled for. The stated purpose of FIRST is
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Originally Posted by http://www.usfirst.org/
To create a world where science and technology are celebrated...where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes.
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A rule designed to enforce counterclockwise travel around the track doesn't even come close to going against that purpose.
Something just occurred to me. It sounds like this Kettering event was run like a regional competition, but just the
robot competition part. I think that might be putting undue emphasis on the outcome of the matches. There is so much more to FIRST in general, and even the First Robotics Competition in particular, than playing the game. I fully expect that MiGHT will find the Great Lakes Regional a much more inspiring environment, even with the same game rules in effect.