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Re: Elitist Teams

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My team has never been a first super power, and highly doubt we will be soon. We put gracious professionalism at our forefront, instead of looking for ways to win matches, we look for ways to help rookies. So when I recently competed with a team that had an elitist "we're better than you" attitude it left a bad taste in my mouth.

This team is completely unapproachable in their pits, I tried to talk strategy with them, and they denied me even though they had anything better to do.

Then once we got to the cue, they showed up and I tried to to talk to them again, instead of a discussion, they told us what we were going to do the whole match as if it wasn't disputable, as if we didn't have a say. I was mad, but I figured we'll get the win and the qualification points so it's no biggie.

I'm really glad you brought this up. This is by and far the WORST year for gracious professionalism by several teams. Too many years in first? Maybe. We've been at it for 8 years now. We ran into the same thing at one of the regionals this year. One of the lower numbered teams came to us and said "this is what you are going to do." I don't know about you, but as a mentor I spent time undoing what this does to a drive team when drivers from another team come over and TELL YOU what your team is going to do in a match. This is as bad as a team that purely lies that they can do something and then can't in the match.

Shall I go on? How about the team that completely took over one part of the stands that our team had saved for the mentors and pit crew to come up in the stands to watch the matchs? Some of these parents are so rude that we ended up GRACIOUSLY giving up ALL of our seats to this team. Not one word of thanks, although they continued to talk about us as we went upstairs to film. Yeah snotty mom, we could hear you bad mouthing us. We were standing directly above you and could hear everything!

How about more. The next regional we went to, we had one team sitting in front of us and we were against them during this round. I knew that they would be excited and jumping up and down, so I went up stairs to the "media" table to film and one of the teams who were not only taking up the whole top row, but decided that they 'owned' the media table at the top of the stands for their scouting. When I asked if I could use the corner of the table ( for you geeks my mono pod base is 3/4" diameter) to put my mono pod on to film I get this attittude, "we need this area to scout. I am talking to these people, ( he points to the people in the top row)". Wow that was gracious. I was going to use the media area... for media. I graciously just moved somewhere else.

Let's continue. OK so the refs tell us that we have to fix our broken bumpers after we lost a wheel during competition and broke one of the bumpers trying to go over the hump with a lost wheel. We have a flurry of activity and we HAD to do some work across from our pits on the bumpers. Did it occur to the people on one of the teams that drove over my already broken toe with their robot to say I'm sorry when the saw me writhing in pain in the floor, nope. All I got from the last team member was, " you shouldn't have been in the isle". BTW this is the same team that pushed us out of stands at the other regional.

Frankly this type of stuff should cause a few of these teams to be immediately disqualified, period. NO discussion, pack up your crap and leave. Loose your qualifiying points, ban them from further competition for the year. Once a few of these teams get banned from a regional I think they will learn that gracious professionalism is part of First. If you can't handle it, First is going to penalize you.

Is this really the level that first has deteriorated too? I know some of us are really getting tired of this attitude and something needs to be done to address it in the PITS. Not tomorrow, not after some discussion on the off season, but right now, and at the next regional or state competition. Wake up First your plan is falling apart and being tarnished by these teams.
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