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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
after youve been doing FIRST for several years you realize you cant take the competitions too seriously
on our team we designed our bot to perform certain functions, and we see the competition as a chance to see how well we designed and built it
so we measure our success based on how well our bot does what we wanted it to - and all we ask from our drive team is to do their best to make the bot perform the way we intended
and we also stress that 25 of us spent 6 weeks designing and building this thing - and they only have 2 minutes on the field to make it do its stuff, so if the match doesnt go well they should not feel like they let us down - because they are only a small part of the whole team
if our team was perfect our bot would be perfect - it would do everything and do it well - it would be a dream to drive - a child could operate it
but we never had a perfect bot - so the driver has a less than perfect machine to work with -why would we expect the drive team to be perfect?
If we succeed, we succeed as a team
if we fail, we fail as a team
but either way, we are a team - we go home together
and celebrate our accomplishments, whatever they are
and try to learn from our mistakes.
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that's beautifully said, Ken, but when the drive team is some of the same 25 that gave their time, its hard not to be really stressed out. It becomes 2 minutes that have to make your 6 weeks worthwhile.