[PayneTrain]

Oh, hey OP. I guess if I was to adequately answer your question more directly instead of leaving you to infer what's above, it's people. Zero dollars in the bank account and zero square feet of work space can easily sink a team, but an FRC team can only be as good as the sum of its individuals. Planting seeds of passion for FIRST and specifically FRC in community members of all ages and backgrounds will create a good team. Finding the right people who have been through the fire and come out a leader for an FRC team is hard because most of them are tied to a blood oath of sorts to the teams that built them, so you'll have to put new people through the crucible and watch them grow over time.