Appropriate penalties for off-the-field ethical/behavioral violations

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Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

We all have been saying what the penalties might be for the cheaters and also what is our opinion in general. now lets state the problem...

"What do you feel is appropriate and how should this be enforced? Who who do the enforcing and should there be any limits to the penalties." - Steve W.

few respective members said that we should penalize teams, and few other respective members said that we should just let it go, because we dont want to lose teams. most of us said that FIRST should be enforcing these and few said that there should be limits (they posted the limits that we should have). (PLEASE correct me if i am wrong).

Here is a question for all of you (it was mentioned before, but i didnt see any response)..

"How would you know if a team is cheating? and if you do know, how would you prove it?"

as I mentioned earlier in my other post, that is when "Honesty" comes into play.

-Arefin

More rigorous inspections---

You'd be surprised at how dramatically the results of each year's games might've changed had there been a device to test a robot's current, and I don't think it would be incredibly difficult to enforce bringing illegal parts into the pit area, as has been previously mentioned. If someone were to monitor what goes in and out of the pit, surely the game would be made significantly fairer. Of course, if this were to be enforced, we should institute some more lenient rules relating to such, as it would be a shame to have a team which was incapable of competing due to such a strict rule.