[Jstack14]

If we stricly are talking robot i said facilities. Not because its the most important thing for first, but i think its the most important thing for a succesfull consistant robot. NOt just facilities though, someone who knows how to and can train others to use it (whether that be mentor or student). Our school finally got a metal shop and our robot should be better then ever because we could acuratley machine parts and create the robot we deisgned. Though mentors and students are far more important to first, there will always be more mentors or students when current ones leave (well i hope so atleast, they aren't expendable but somehow there always seems to be somebody). So in my opinon, and based on looking at many incredible robotos who year after year create outstanding robots, facilities are pivitoal to a ROBOT's succes, FIRST as a whole is a different story.

p.s. as for a robot, i define sucess as continualy increasing preformance each year ultimatley leading up to consistanytly being a top robot. For my team we still are on the journey up so making an allinace and whening a qulaification match to me would be success for our robot.