Gracious Professionalism and Team 60

[Kristina]

First of all, I have to agree with Sean in some aspects in saying that no team should treat any other team with a lack of respect or rudely.

However, I also do have to defend "dude who looks at things" because he is entitled to his own opinions. Many teams (including mine) have hardly any help from big companies and our robot is all student built. Our team can say that we're proud of the robot we bulit and it is frustrating when professionaly built robots sweep competitions. Competitions may be icing on the cake for some but for other teams it is a very big investment, seeing as how registration is thousands of dollars and traveling is expensive too. I feel his frustration and I believe that as long as he or others who share similar views act "graciously" to team 60 and the like, then they are allowed to have their own point of view.

As someone commented earlier, each individual team is allowed to inspire their teams different ways and along those lines, I believe that FIRST members should be able to think different ways too (as long as their actions show the same maturity).