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Originally Posted by Navid Shafa
As one of these teams, in fact 31st out of 31 PNW slots (before waitlist candidates), I can say I agree. While we had a good enough robot and enough practice to win a district, we weren't as competitive as the top tier at the DCMP.
Our goal as a team, was to make it to world's in this transition year. It feels amazing and the kids are proud, because they know we worked hard to earn it. We want to be competitive at Saint Louis, we want to do our best to contribute in Qualification Matches, but most importantly we want to build a team.
I want my students to strive to be better, to learn more and want more. Being able to show them robots and teams that continue to inspire me allows me to do that. Without the risk of failure or more importantly a lofty goal to reach, how can I expect them to be Inspired to grow.
Teams don't want a banner or a championship slot handed to them, they want to earn it. Winning a match in the finals is not just a victory in the moment, it's being rewarded for all the hard work we put in during the season and up until then at the event.
You want to inspire? Give people all the examples they can get, teach them, and reward them the right amount for the time and effort they put in. That's inspiring.
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I couldn't agree more, your team
earned that spot at Champs and I'm super excited that you guys were able to qualify. This is why I like having more slots to send teams to champs from a DCMP event.
What I don't particularly like is sending more teams from the waitlist, while it could (and has) inspire(d) teams, they also have very little vested into it since it's random. If anything, institute Super Regionals in non-district regions so that more teams can be in 4513's (MikLast's) position.