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Originally Posted by Oblarg
You don't see a high correlation between team access to resources and robot quality?
I disagree heartily. Money and sponsors certainly don't guarantee team success, but they offer a huge amount of help along the way.
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There might be some correlation, but I don't think it's high. It's my personal belief that excellent engineering mentors are enough to overcome any disparity in money and resources. This is the type of engineer and mentor I strive to become. There are a lot of teams that have large budgets and resources, but still don't field winning robots. There's plenty of teams that live on $50-$100 microsponsorships and buy parts out of pocket that do field winning robots. The difference lies in how these teams use their resources and how they build within those resources. Excellent teams will then work hard to increase the amount of resources they have.