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Originally Posted by michaelwm
Our team is in it's second rookie year - we have gotten to the semi-finals at every regional but never further, and just last regional, we were the closest to going to the world championship we have ever been. After we lost at our last regional, I was personally devastated. So close, yet we didn't make it. The point is that our team is a middle-lower class team. Going to the world championship is really my dream.
And yet, of the people on our team who have heard this announcement, we all dislike it. Out of the ~100 teams we competed with this year, only 6 made it to the world championship. We desire to go to world's because we want to know we are in the top 6% of FRC teams in the world.
But top 25%? That's an entirely different story. Being 1 in 4 doesn't say "you are a top team". Being 1 in 16 does.
It's not just the "elite" teams, it's teams like ours that want a real championship, not another regional.
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Everyone can have their own goals. I'm sure for many teams, WINNING the championship is their goal. Your team can still have "being in the top 6%" as a goal; how about placing in the top 10 in your championship division? Or top 8? Or being in the top 6% in OPR? Or winning an engineering award (or all 5)? None of this has anything to do with going to Championship (unless, maybe, you get there as the captain of a winning alliance, or maybe the first pick).
How would you feel if you got to Championship as a second pick? I don't think that puts you in the top 6% of teams - I would doubt many would say that the first alliance's 2nd pick is "above" the second alliance captain, regardless of which alliance wins the regional. Ditto for the 3rd captain, if all 6 on the top two alliances go. I don't think that just because 6 teams go to champs, it means they are the "top 6%" in terms of best robot/engineering (or even driving).