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...Everywhere I went at GLR, I heard spite about your teams and how “unfair” it was all day long. Is this really what you want?...
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i suspect that if the Niagara FIRST triplets hadn't collaborated this year, those that are complaining about the unfairness of the triplets would still be complaining; only they'd find some other reason to complain, be it that the top teams have more funding, more engineers, more shop time, etc. this is a problem, but it isn't the triplet's.
while teams 1503 and 1680 are obviously integral parts of this alliance, i feel safe in assuming that 1114 is the leader. the way i see it, team 1114
could have continued on there own, building dominant robots year after year, they instead decided to help two other teams. i can't count how many times i've seen someone post that a team could better use there money "helping out another less fortunate team" rather than building practice robots, ornate pits, flashy carts, etc. well, guess what? team 1114 seems to have taken those comments to heart. and now, i suspect, those same people who've in the past condoned other teams for there "opulent" practices are now whining about the dominating performance of the triplets.
so if some wish to complain about other's massive budgets and resources, thats to be expected; not every team can have huge machine shops, billion dollar sponsors, or teams of engineers at their disposal. but with modern communication, they shouldn't complain about the unfairness of collaboration; this is a case of "if you can't beat them, join them".
and finally, what is with this apparent taboo against playing to win? would i not be selling my teams short if i didn't do my very best to help them win? among my teams, we have a saying,"if you're not playin' to win, then you're just playin' ". this is after all, FIRST Robotics
Competition. the way i see it, inspiration is inexorably linked to the competition. so it stands to reason, the more competitive the competition is, the more inspirational it is.
wow...i think thats my longest post, ever.