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Originally posted by KenWittlief
-adults yelling at students on the playfield after a bad performance in a match
- students off in a corner at a regional, in tears
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Those kinds of things are related more on match performance than robot performance. Thats why technology awards should count for something because they're dependent on good engineering, not good match performance.
Your robot could be broken most of the time and you could never win a match, but you can still win an award for your great idea. I mean look at some of the award winners this year. Many of them didn't do too well at the competition. In some cases the mechanism they won for didn't even work most of the time.
Winning a regional, however, does require really good match performance. Getting knocked out in the elimination rounds and thus losing the opportunity to qualify could very easily anger the adult mentor or make a student cry.