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Our team had to deal with disappointment earlier this season. We had a pretty successful season last year. We RAS and two other awards at GTR-E, won Archimedes at champs and we won IRI. We had a long way to fall from a first year like that.

In Seattle, our robot performance was very poor. On the practice day, we spent he whole day dealing with pneumatics and only got inspected in time for one practice match. During quals, we had two matches where we managed to have the shooter working and the rest we had to deal with multiple different issues that stopped us from being successful. When we didn't make eliminations for the first time in our history we were very disappointed. We had been planning a dinner after the event, but now we were ready to call it off. After some talking to from some parents we decided to have the dinner anyways. This turned out to be a really good idea. We had a opportunity to discuss our shortcomings, changes we wanted to make for Calgary, and review everything that went wrong during the regional. Not only that, but it improved the spirits of everybody on the team considerably.

I think a good way to deal with disappointment is to review a regional and consider your next steps. This strategy seemed to well for us.