What's happening to this program???

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I am someone who really believes in the FIRST program but lately with having perfume poured on my daughter as a prank at a team social and now getting news back from the Denver regional I am really floored!!!

Some teams are actually planning strategies to rip others pneumatics off, or how to do damage to others robots. One of our team members came back and told me (I am one of the mentors) about someone who wanted to make an alliance with us and their strategy was to try and damage other robots by ripping off or damaging their pneumatics. This is NOT ROBOT WARS!!!

I think people are not being taught what FIRST ROBOTICS represents or they are totally missing the point with this program. If you are in it to win at all cost and you do not mind messing up MANY, MANY long hard hours of MANY people's time- I think you should find another program such as Robot Wars and join that.

Please do not destroy other people hopes, hard work and aspirations because you have the wrong mentality for this program! FIRST is NOT about damaging others Robots! Remember "GRACIOUS PROFESSIONALISM" is what is required in this program- if you are unclear about what that is go to:
http://www.usfirst.org