Another Culture Change

[Zflash]

Many teams are competing at bag and tag events this year and in the past and probably even more in the future. These bag and tag teams are guided under Gracious Professionalism to bag there robot by the rules and not open it until the rules permit. Everyone in the community allows GP to be the determining factor as to whether teams are abiding by the rules.

When a team says that they are student/mentor built no matter the percentage, GP seems to be thrown out the window for some people in FRC. They look at a well engineered good looking robot and say that a group og high school students could not have done that. And they are right it was done by a collaboration of students and Adult mentors doing what they should be doing mentoring and learning.

We experienced some discrimination this year at Pittsburgh as well. We were called "rebels" by one of the Safety judges behind our backs when he found out our team was from South Carolina. Unknown to him he told a fellow volunteer from South Carolina this. (Which is how we found out)

Although our incident was not as public it hurts. I hope that this does not happen again to teams like 1114. And certainly hope it was not due to them being Canadian as one of our largest sponsors headquarters is located there.

And on a personal note...sorry to Karthik for not having spare banebot motors we definitely should have brought are unused KOPs however it did not seem to effect you guys in the long run. Congrats on another win.