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Elitist Teams

A lot of people have been discussing lately the negative remarks that are said about really good teams just because they get blue banners. But I want to explore a different side of the argument.

My team has never been a first super power, and highly doubt we will be soon. We put gracious professionalism at our forefront, instead of looking for ways to win matches, we look for ways to help rookies. So when I recently competed with a team that had an elitist "we're better than you" attitude it left a bad taste in my mouth.

This team is completely unapproachable in their pits, I tried to talk strategy with them, and they denied me even though they had anything better to do.

Then once we got to the cue, they showed up and I tried to to talk to them again, instead of a discussion, they told us what we were going to do the whole match as if it wasn't disputable, as if we didn't have a say. I was mad, but I figured we'll get the win and the qualification points so it's no biggie.

Then once the match starts, the team has a perfect autonomous, and we're against 3 robots that really needed some help mechanically so the score was 36-0 ish in our alliances favor. We drive to our alliance bridge to prep it for balancing like this team told us to, but they apparently wants the balls on that bridge and we're in the way. instead of driving around us or asking us to move, their driver rams into us and shouts at the top of his lungs, "470 get out of the way!" as if them getting those two balls were going to win or lose the match.

That's when I was ready to drop the controls and tell them what I really thought, but Gracious Professionalism prevailed.

Scenarios like this have happened with many other big name teams in our area at competitions before, and I don't want this to smear the pristine FIM image, but does anyone else have these problems?

Is it possible that people make the negative remarks because some teams treat others negatively?

Would this team have acted the same way if Mr. Kamen was in the discussion and behind the driver station with them?
 


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