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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256
I'm truly sorry if I'm coming off as selfish, arrogant, or a person who only wants to win. I just want my team to be able to get started off on the right track. If any of you read The New Cool, you should know what I'm talking about.
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I know you want to help out your team, but I think you should all look at the situation as a whole and decide what it is you want to get out of off season competitions. No one on CD can answer this for you, but we can give you some ideas of how we handle it. I can tell you from my time with 422 off-season competitions have always been team building exercises for us. It's when we get the newbies out and excited about robots, and when we start getting the veterans to think about transitioning to a more mentor like roll. One thing we've found that really helps this is to get a veteran to be the coach with brand new students "at the wheel." We also get them working in the pits alongside the veterans providing a great crash course in how FIRST robots work. Obviously we're not very competitive this way, but I've seen more than a few kids that wandered in confused to what all the fuss was about and after driving the bot for a match are now excited and ready to go 110% in January. My question to you would be, is a win at an off season as important as creating that spark of excitement? To me its not, to you and your team, that's the important question here.
In reference to your quote above, I would encourage you to consider your own motives in your stance, are you really out for making your team the best it can be, or are you trying to secure your own position on the drive team.
Also I like being cryptic so I'll leave you a quote I think about in situations like this from Lucky Number Slevin:
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The Rabbi: My father used to say: "The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose, the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk but the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle."
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