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Originally Posted by ehfeinberg
I am also curious why a lot of these teams became less dominant? Did they lose major sponsors or key mentors? Or have they just been having bad luck?
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Sometimes everything revolves around one or two mentors, and when they leave the operation falls apart. I'm not sure about other teams, but 1002 in their glory days won Chairmans award 3 times in a row from 04-06, and getting the honorable mention at championships in 04. From 07-'10, excluding '08, they won an EI award at their home regional. Before '09 started, they lost a valuable mentor and had another mentor get ill. All of the organization and planning went away with these mentors, and now the students of 1002 are left disorganized and trying to recuperate their losses.