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[Ian W.]

I think you're worrying way too much about GP. This is a competition, there is an element of "WE WON!" in any competition. Look at any major sport, the teams play for their own team, and when they win they party, but after the cheering ends and the excitment dies down a bit, they congratulate the other team(s). That's how FIRST should be I think. People just care WAY too much about GP, to the point where it becomes pure stupidity. The idea about GP is to make sure that no team gets totally "owned." Not to make sure that everyone is all happy at the end. Making sure that everyone is happy leads to its own problems, mostly the fact that it destroys any competition.

Long story short, don't care so much about GP that it ruins all the fun, because that's what the current trend seems to be doing.