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Originally Posted by HonorablePlayer
Yes.. but not all of us live near nor receive the support of veteran teams... I would think that a team that succeeds without that experience and help is all that much more exceptional of a team...
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I should state... we did receive LOTS of support and offers of support from numerous teams in the form of questions answered.... but with just six weeks to build for a rookie team its hard to travel 90 to 120 minutes away to go see another team....
Heck we didn't have our robot ready to actually practice until the day before the ship date.... I know I'm biased... but what this team accomplished with absolutely no prior experience of anyone on our team with US First, the fact we literally started the team the day of kick-off, and the fact we fielded a robot that was described by numerous teams and volunteers as a "non-rookie quality robot", that hung numerous tubes at all levels, attempted ubertube autonomous mode every round, and twice got our mini-bot at least on the pole... Lets not even talk about the jaguar that burst into flames and started a pretty major fire in our robots electronics bay 2 weeks before ship date... Not to mention in that time frame me and my fellow students came up with a video, a web site, marketing materials, an animation, and found 11 sponsors to get us to that Regional... All I'm saying is our accomplishments speak for themselves... if anyone considers these things not "All Star" qualities, because we didn't exist earlier and go volunteer at another event, or submit a chairman's award submission... well respectfully we can agree to disagree..
