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Re: Is FRC truly competitive?

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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson View Post
Competitivness is what drives people to be sucessfull in life and avoid stagnation.

If you compete and get humiliated from not being prepared it should make you go home and worker harder for the next time. If you just walk away and accept defeat you will never become better. You can also be the second best team in the world and acknowledge that someone better beat you. You don't have to be happy with it though. You can take that as the inspiration to improve and get more sponsers, resources, mentors or whatever you feel you needed to improve. Just don't stay static and accept mediocraty.
Complacency as the best has kicked many firms off their pedestal as well. Just look at the current state of RIM (go to the 5 year view), and what almost happened to the Ford Motor Company.

On the other hand, driven firms with vision can accomplish remarkable things in short time frames, look at the meteoric rise of Apple or Airbus.

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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Of course FRC is competitive. That's why nobody likes it when referees make calls against them.
This is fantastic. If anyone ever gets mad at the regulators, it is competitive.
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