pic: Sneaky at Gen Con

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

lol this is ridiculous. Steve, you're basically saying that breaking a rule in any sense is the same. Which I can understand I guess, but there are varying degrees and levels here. Have you ever drove over the speed limit? Even just a bit? If so, you've broken a rule. Yet nearly everyone has done that at some point or another.

My point is, there are many rules that exist. And everyone has broken a rule at some point in their life. Even intentionally, and a lot of times it's not a big deal. Bringing a drink into a convention center to avoid paying outrageous prices is one of those rules that, in my opinion, isn't a very important one. In a robot competition, following rules to the T is obviously necessary, but that just isn't the case for every single other aspect of life.

And these guys weren't even attending the convention! The chance that they would actually buy something is slim to none. I think we might be a little stir crazy, build season is still a few months away. Let's chill out and not jump all over 1501 for doing this or even make a big deal out of it for that matter. We should be praising them for doing this demo, not bashing them.

I agree with Ryan and as i said earlier. Derek liked us so much and how we acted he invited us back and wants more to come. Possiably a competition.

I started off with $200 going to indy and i have $10 left.... seems like they made plenty of money off of me. Not to mention all the other students and mentors. Some even competed in some of the games. Derek even said "I seen some of you guys walking around its great to see you taking a part of Gen Con itself, because i don't want you guys to stay here all day"

Also there was a food cart behind us the first day they had a total of 30 customers the whole day 2 of them not from the robotics thing..... then they closed that because they did not have enough "public" business.

I don't even know why i am defending myself there was no rule broken.