Cheating in FRC

[aldaeron]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Every uncomfortable situation has 2 sides to a story.

I saw this post on Reddit too and remember there being a great comment about perceived cheating that was not actually cheating (since the Reddit OP was a first year). The Reddit reply had mentioned things like working on a practice bot, working on code or working on a mechanism within the WITHHOLDING ALLOWANCE. To a new member these may appear to be "cheating" though are allowed by last year's rules. I did not see any replies and the thread is now deleted.

Over the years I have heard a number of things called "cheating" by students, parents and spectators who did not understand the rules well enough (let's face it, sometimes I feel like a lawyer reading all the Q&A and rules updates all the time).

-matto-