Ozark Mountain Sportsmanship

[SharonO]

Originally Posted by JB987

A great story and testament to sportsmanship. Not exactly what FIRST is currently all about though since they changed the rules a while back disallowing an alliance from using their time out to help another alliance. Kudos to your event organizers for allowing this to happen though!

In Oklahoma City this year, our driver and alliance captain offered to use our time-out to help out the opposing alliance with more time and it was not allowed. They opposing alliance made it back to the field before their time-out was up, but they were not back 100% functional. I don't understand why FIRST doesn't allow this type of gracious professionalism in their competitions.