[Nate Edwards]

Originally Posted by maxlobovsky

We are a rookie team and it was defenitley great that we went to two regionals. At our first regional (NJ), we had many malfunctions and ended up being 4-4-0 in the qualifying rounds (only thanks to getting lucky with partners). At our second (Annapolis), we had almost all bugs worked out and managed to be 5-2-0 and be the alliance captains for aliiance 8. I know we would have been very disappointed if all 6 weeks had led to only what we did at NJ, and we defeintley needed one regional to get all the bugs worked out.

but the problem with that is... you need to always be aiming for the top at your first regional... thats what im worried about if you start off like 0-2-1 or something your team will be like oh well we dont need this one we can rely on the next one and slack off the rest of the time. i saw a team do this is portland. but the next one might not be rewarding either. We came back from 1-2-1 to win the competitoin and the other team got 3rd or 4th from last so theres a bit of a difference. But does this happen often with other teams?