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Re: Why Losers Lose?

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
- A failure to honestly and realistically evaluate one's resources (resources in this context are defined as time, experience, fabrication abilities and money), thus making you think you're capable of doing more than you can do.
- A failure to properly design around one's resources
This is the one thing that I see kills more teams than any other.

Lots of people asked why we used wood this year and I expect they were looking for some elaborate technical answer but the bottom line was it was a quick available and free resource.
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