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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
I agree you don't have to win an award or an event, or even get picked for eliminations. But, I think you do have to care about winning and you've got pick up some wins along the way (sometimes those wins are simply "We scored a point!"), which was the original poster's point.
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I think we both have similar viewpoints on this. I may have misinterpreted the original poster's statement as winning meaning receiving a trophy or medal.
Teams should have goals that they set and try to achieve each year in order to make them the best they can be, and to do their best at inspiring students. But, I think for the purposes of measuring success, it should be based on their own standards, not the metric of being the best at a competition.
To some of the points about the number of winners vs cheapening the feeling of winning, I think FIRST is trying to figure out the best balance of this. Look at high school sports, how they are separated based on divisions. They choose to separate into divisions based on school size, and have different winners for each division. Even though there are multiple winners for a sport, they all feel the same sense of accomplishment.