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Re: Gracious Professionalism?

I saw this and feel like I have to comment on it. Until this year, I can honestly admit that I've felt a couple of teams have had an unfair advantage here and there but really it's not appropriate AT ALL to bring it up to them. I never have and never will because that's a little bit of Gracious Professionalism too. Also, just to set the right scene up here, they were only VERY, VERY minor concerns and after competition I threw those ideas away. However, I have to say "until this year" because this year our team won the Granite State Regional and one of my friends on our team said he went to the movies and saw some students from another team that attended GSR and when he showed them a picture of our robot he said they immediately recognized it and said that the ref's gave us a break because we hadn't won any other year. I completely disagree with that and it was actually pretty hurtful to hear! Of course it was never really a big deal at all and certainly isn't on my mind all the time now since I simply know that couldn't happen, but it really just isn't in the category of 'Gracious Professionalism' to think that some teams get unfair advantages or 'free passes' or anything like that. Not telling anyone what to do or think, but I really think that we should be able to trust FIRST and everyone a part of it to follow the rules equally and 'play fair'. That's what I feel from the past competitions I've been to and being involved for the past few years meeting everyone I can in FIRST, and I get the sense that this is true for all competitions and teams!
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