Sippin' on the haterade

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Patrick Chiang

To enforce more parity, all they would have to do is announce "FIRST is primary about students. Mentors, remember you're only here to help, not do it for them". If they emphasize that philosophy (which would be great), mentor-ran teams would not disappear overnight, but their legitimacy would decline, and teams will change; the competition would become a much less hostile atmosphere between alleged elite teams and normal teams.

VRC does exactly that. Is there/has there been a raging battle on the VEX forums about the have/have not teams there?

This thread has degenerated into another mentor-built vs. student-built thread, we've got piles of them, and of the dozens of events I've been to over the years, I have yet to see any 100% student-built or 100% mentor-built robots. Let's keep the OP in mind moving forward and make this a constructive discussion - if it needs to be discussed further at all.

tl;dr [the entire thread]: We love 1771, 1311, 234, 1114, 2056, et. al. We also are jealous of them. Whaddya gonna do.