Dangerous precedent set by Q&A 461: Loaning Parts/Assemblies to other teams

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

When the audience begins to understand this, they (regrettably) begin to celebrate other teams' failures.

Originally Posted by Gregor

It's much more prominent this year because you are rooting for failures even in matches that your team isn't in. I found myself guilty of this at our first event.

Same. I'm always one of the first people to get upset when teams cheer for others' failures, but I caught myself in quarterfinals with our team thinking "We'll advance if they knock that stack over... Please knock your own stack over".

That's really ugly. It didn't feel good at all. I wanted to slap myself for even thinking it - so why is that a part of this game?