[frcguy]

Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone

I told my team last year, and reminded them this week before going into the regional. It doesn't matter if we win or lose the regional.

What matters is what yo take away from it. You've learned many valuable skills. While talking to one of the newer students, he is already planning on going into engineering when he graduates in a few years. He said this program is great because it gives a head start on college.

While talking to our drivers, they told me, how from our rookie year to now, how much they have learned. How they joined this program not too sure what it is, and were able to gain many skills. Champs in 2014 showed them, we can improve and do better for 2015. With 2015 teaching them we can work harder, and work smarter in the future. This year, they were more prepared going into build season and cared more about creating the full bot and having it accomplish the tasks they set out, rather than see it win. It was a win in their book seeing the bot preform as planned on field.

Every team I feel should inform students, that refs could make bad calls, and you could sulk over it. But you may not realize on the flip side if you won based off a bad call, you're still calling it a win in your book. So their are two sides to that argument.

Thanks for this post. Excellent point about accomplishing tasks and learning instead of winning at all costs.