I'd rather be on a rookie team. Usually its their first years that are their glory days and they fair quite well. I was involved with a rookie LEGO league team before my real robotics days that ALMOST made it to states and got a quality research award. As for a rookie team that I wish I was on, 1241 would be that choice. They almost took home GLR, and they would have if some team didn't plop a big ball in their net (no offense)
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