Yesterday, Dan dropped his schedule to listen to the community. He spent his night describing, to the best of his limitations, an extremely complex situation to an internet mob. He made this a priority because he cares about finding a solution. Yet somehow, the forum degraded to churlish garbage …

[image] DougMoyers: Another option would be to collect the notebooks at inspection (as is common) , and have a display table at the inspection area where teams are encouraged to examine each other’s work. The notebooks would be on display throughout inspection, and only sequestered during the QR…

[image] TheColdedge: Also while helpful for education, it’s still a competition, and the openness won’t be popular. I see teams taking this attitude all the time, an it frustrates me. Their ideas are not so unique and game-changing that someone observing them would suddenly gain an advantage…

This thread has gotten so off topic . . .

This is in response to an earlier post about the suspicion of bias in judged awards in instances where a home team often wins, while at other competitions they do not. There are a couple of likely explanations for this that i think should be considered. The home team has been mentored by the jud…

The topic of the thread was ways to make RECF and competitions better, more fair, and more predictable in judgement from the perspective of competitors. That can be a more formalized escalation process for different degrees of punishment, and it can also be improvements or a better understanding of …

[image] Judges’ Comments to Teams General Forum There is another thread going on about comments back from the judges to teams. Currently RECF has said to not return the rubrics to team since the point value is very subjective and that some teams will come argue the score …

[image] DougMoyers: Teams should be open to sharing ideas. While Damage due to carelessness is my top concern. The last team to openly post excerpts of their note book (online and regularly) had that used against them after they received the highest honor at the world championship. They got …

The perception of injustice or bias comes from the idea, implanted by adults onto children, that winning is the point of robotics. It is not. Winning is a by-product of a successful and repeatable engineering process. RECF knows this, which is one of the reasons why the changed the knockout tourn…

[image] MrCoachRentz: Winning is a by-product of a successful and repeatable engineering process. RECF knows this, which is one of the reasons why the changed the knockout tournament rules to one and done, to de-emphasize winning and emphasize the process. Very well said! VRC is a competition…

Getting back to the some of the broader topics that began this thread, I have a question/comment. Please don’t jump on me for asking it. I rarely ever post on this forum - I think my last post was over a year ago. But I do see some ideas being discussed that cause me some concern. I am concerned th…

Justice in the RECF. Thank you for your time Dan

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vexmo April 3, 2019, 4:39pm 146

That is a fair interpretation; however i feel SOME of the comments regarding this subjects would be better placed in fosters thread (link above)