[jman4747]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

Your outcome is dictated by your worldview. You feel that success comes from the field of play. I disagree with that entirely. I measure success, and in turn my team does as well, by how many students we get excited about STEM. How many students we graduate to college. How many students come back to mentor as Alums. If a team is "struggling" it probably has nothing at all to do with the ranking of the robot on any given field, but rather another issue all together. You are correct that success matters. How each team measures their success is different. One is no better than the other. However, my "successes" are a lot more under my control. Your's is dependent on the chaotic nature of an FRC game field.

This is right. I helped fill out the GA WIT grant app for our team and not one part wanted to know how many trophies you won. A lot of people actually do care about the hard work more than the trophy.

One takeaway I got from the video was that in order to do super regional you need a more geographically consistent district structure but team growth is outpacing that.

I had wondered for a while early in my FRC career how California hadn't had a district structure with so many teams. It was shocking recently when GA FIRST asked if we wanted districts next year or not because I never thought we would get here before California. So I would say you can't assume that FIRST will grow how it seems it will now. I mean who in 2011 expected that GA would have districts by 2016-17?