Team 548 Einstein Statement

[Racer26]

I'm admittedly a bit late to the party on this one, but here goes anyway.

IMO, 548's statement is what was needed to get the community to put away the pitchforks. BUT, I don't believe the story told to them by the mentor in question. I personally feel that both the story told to 548's committee by the mentor, AND the story in the Einstein Report BOTH overlook the giant elephant in the room, that being the mysterious comms losses through MSC and Newton Elims, exhibiting symptoms consistent with the FCA attack (based on my viewing of the match video I can find), and only to teams that would pose a threat to 548's success in future matches (or current matches, in a desparation effort to avoid elimination).

I'm content to take 548's committee at face value, that this mentor acted alone, and without the knowledge of the rest of the team. However, I feel that the individual who interfered with Einstein isn't telling the whole truth. It is my opinion, and one I'm sure I'm not alone in, that the individual had been using the FCA vulnerability since at least MSC.

Since I believe this individual was acting alone, I hold no grudge against 548 as a team.

Another thing I haven't seen mentioned, is that there was a Week 4 event held in 548's school. Its entirely likely that the mentor discovered the vulnerability there, when they would have had decidedly greater access to a real field than anywhere else.

While I agree with many of the posters in the first couple of pages of this thread that interfering at the highest stage to demonstrate your vulnerability isn't cool, if this person hadn't done that, we probably never would have had the Einstein Investigation, and many of the issues uncovered by it may have continued to go unnoticed.