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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
So you're not going to try and win just because there are two championships? Having to share the championship title with 7 other teams instead of 3 other teams will change your motivations as a team? You'll no longer have any drive towards success if you can only win in Houston and not Detroit?
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I'm sorry, I'm not explaining myself completely. Let me try. Yes, it does change our motivations. It doesn't change them for any single event in that we will strive to do our best. That's not what I'm saying. What it might do is split our team. We have been growing continuously for the last 3~4 years to the point where we have finally started talking about forming an FTC or VEX team as a sort of "JV" team. Instead, what we might do because of this is make FRC our "JV" team and then attempt to enter into some of the college-level robotics competitions that exist. We are in a unique position in that our primary school is technically part of the UNC university system so we could be afforded to do this without a lot of headache.
For the first time I can ever recall in the team's history (since 2002), and I've been around for a lot of it (since 2003), we are seriously considering taking the energies/focus/resources off of FRC and putting them into something else. There are a lot of reasons for this but believe me when I tell you that this notion of a split championship has been a catalyst for having these conversations. Striving to be the best in the world at something is a huge driver for us. Removing that goal (or adding more if you prefer looking at it that way) is demotivating.