Ungracious and unprofessional...

[BlueOrion]

Originally Posted by adventrx327

This isnt nearly as ungracious and unprofessional as the actions of someone i saw at the portland regional. I dont know why, but I saw him sneak over to team 473 (montana i think) and turn of their surge protector at the end of the day... they were charging a normal and backup battery. And yes, i am sure he wasnt on their team because he wasnt wearing their blue shirts. I dont know why, but unplugging someone's batteries is just disgusting. Anyone in here with me on this?

Wow that is worthy of serious action to be taken if it could be proven that someone did that and it was detrimental to the team. Hopefully you or someone else plugged the batteries back in though...that kind of thing deserves disqualification or something.

On another note, at Chesapeake during one of the quarterfinal matches, a team from the opposite alliance got its arm stuck in 1257's net and wound up mangling 1257's net and frame a bit as well as potentially keeping 1257 from being completely off of the platform. But like many other things that happen in a round, it happened and it was unintentional. I just hope teams keep in mind that it is a privilege to be part of FIRST and to have the opportunity to compete with such great people. Dean Kamen, Mike Wade, Jim Moore, and all of the other organizers, announcers, judges, and volunteers, not to mention the students...they put their heart and soul into FIRST and their effort doesn't deserve to be met with immaturity and unprofessional behavior. The point of this whole thing is to have fun, but to also build people and skills.

[10intheCrunch]

Sacramento had its share of both good and bad. To name one of each:

Good: During one match, a robot was beached on a ball. In an awesome gesture, their opponent came over and pushed them off the ball and let them continue the match.

Bad: On Friday, one particular team's robot gained a reputation for playing dirty. They were a big and powerful robot, and several teams complained of being driven up upon, whereupon the offending team spun their treads and ripped up electronics boards and such, clearly not intending to get off the robot underneath. I never saw it myself, in the pits all day as I was, but there was definately a lot of anger about it from some sectors...

[Adam Y.]

There was some iffy behavior on this topic at the SBPLI Regional. And I use the word "iffy" loosely because I don't really see it as a problem, although some might.

I reall don't remeber seeing anything there that was at all iffy. Can you elaberate. In fact it was actually quite nice with all the people walking up to us and helping fix our robot.

[Joe Matt]

Gracious Professionalism is like being cool. You don't know reall know until you are pointed out for being so. And if say you are cool, you arn't. If someone says you arn't cool, then they arn't cool. It's like that. GP is karma, it's something that dosn't need to be recognized, but is just known by others and yourself. Don't let it get to your head.

I think we need that little metaphor for people to think about.

[Robert Hafner]

I was really dissapointed this year with the way the regional we went to went. Our team was quite intentionally rammed into repeatedly and then intentionally tipped over during a semi-final match. Then the team who did it cheered. The drive team was cheering at the fact that they tipped us over. It bothered me because in the four years I've been involved with FIRST, I never thought I would ever see something that nasty happen by any team.