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Originally Posted by Jscout11
I have to somewhat disagree. There were still a good number of teams unable to manipulate the ball at MAR champs and was certainly not at the championship level.
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I don't think I did a good job of making my point, so I'll try again.
(Aging myself here a bit...)
Back when "The Dream Team" dominated the Olympics way back when, there was debate about if a team dominating the Olympics was good for basketball. After all of the debate, the consensus was that having the Dream Team would cause the rest of the world to raise their level of play because now they knew what basketball at the highest level was like. In the end, that prediction came true because the USA has since been challenged and beaten - the rest of the world rose to the challenge.
I think the same effect happens to teams that compete in FIRST. The better the teams they compete against, the better they themselves will be. I know that we learned a lot from MSC that made us a way better team then we would've been without it.
There will always be teams that are happy with where they are. However, there are also a lot of teams that want to be very competitive and want to be the best. If your target of what is "the best" is higher than others targets, then I believe your higher target will naturally make you better.