[FRC Blog] Einstein Report Released

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by EricH

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Now, while emotions are running high, the team would probably end up on every blacklist in FRC. That means that nobody will want to deal with them. The team sponsors get wind of it, and possibly cut the team's funding. The team potentially folds due to the combination of lack of funds and stigma associated with being on everybody's "Don't pick them or accept them" list.

But what if you let it go for a year? Two years? Even four years?

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Now, I'm not saying that the team won't escape any consequences--I know enough about blacklists to know that some actions will put teams on them for years and years. As some of the top teams know who the offending team is, or have a reasonable guess, that team probably will run up against them--but not with them, due to blacklist--in eliminations at some point. But being on the blacklist of top teams versus being on the blacklist of every team that has one--well, if I was in that situation, I'd rather have somebody willing to play on my alliance in the eliminations.

Each team affected by this has a right to be angry at the person who perpetrated the situation. But if four years later the team comes forward or is exposed, and those teams hold a grudge and still can't forgive the team the individual was connected to, then those teams have a GP issue. I would hope that stigma wouldn't last too long that far down the road.

Everything else is spot on.