Ungracious professionalism at internationals?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by M.O'Reilly

The existence of a thread like this is necessary. Otherwise, there would be no shame in the very unprofessional and irresponsible acts that have been accused. If the acts were dishonest, then I hope that discussions like these make the perpetrators realize they aren't more clever than the community.

Are you proposing that we should start random baseless flame wars just to remind people that the scorn of CD will descend upon them if they have even a hint of impropriety? Frankly, I'm starting to feel really bad for anyone with a broken robot heading into selections. Their options are now to decline any picks, lie about their robot's functionality, or be accused of sandbagging.

Here's a hypothetical for the doubters. And I'd appreciate it if you'd actually really consider it. If this exact same situation happened, but the team in question was team 5592 or 30XX or something, would we still be having an argument over them sandbagging their way to the #1 seed? Or would we have accepted the explanation that they thought they were broken and noncompetitive, but managed to pull off some highly impressive repairs over lunch?