Ungracious and unprofessional...

[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.