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Re: Elitist Teams

As a first time driver, I would just like to talk a little bit about my experiences at Midwest playing with powerhouse teams.

Our 2nd match of the day was with 148 Robowranglers. I'm glad we ended up playing with them as early as we did because our drive team learned a ton about strategy, and how to plan out a match. Their coach was extremely approachable, and was a pleasure to work with. He knew a bit about each team, and what they had done in their previous matches, making strategy planning a breeze (they must have a great scouting team). Everybody stuck to the plan, everybody contributed to the match, and we ended up winning handily. I would love to see them return to Midwest next year.

The same goes for pretty much every other team we worked with over the weekend (including 16 Bomb Squad, and 2949 Pwnage).

But long story short, you can't label all powerhouse teams as 'elitist'. This certainly isn't true for most teams.
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