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Unread 17-01-2006, 13:56
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Re: History of Team Spirit

I think its more than just teamwork and bonding.

There are two phases to this program. We start off separately, designing and building our bots, each team at their own location. You get a great deal of satisfaction when you see your bot doing what you designed it to do, then crate it up and ship it off. A very real sense of completion and accomplishment right there.

But then you get to your 1st event, and you walk around and see all the different robots, all the different ideas, all the different people from around the world who have taken on the same problems and challenges

its as if the time and energy we have all put into our machines all comes together and takes on a life of its own. The thousands of man-hours we have put into our designs is all focused in a 130 second match.

Team spirit - thats what defines it for me - our collective invested life-force over the last two months is combined, and it explodes into the arena!
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