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Originally Posted by excel2474
Excel #2474 will be there if we can raise the funds. Those of you who won the rookie all-star award, what did you do to earn it (other than have a good robot)?
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1676 won Rookie All-Star 4 years ago - and I can tell you that
it wasn't because we had a good robot*.
It was because we had a good team.
Being rookies and all, we found in competition that we had built an extremely robust robot, one that just was not breaking, and we hadn't yet learned how to do scouting - so we had several dozen kids who had just spent six weeks building a robot, and were now itching for something to do.
Out they spread, to several other teams (some rookies, some not) - helping everywhere they could. Loaning tools, parts, hardware (we have these huge racks of all sorts of nuts & bolts). We didn't do it to win an award, it just came naturally - we like building robots!
Anyhow, these teams we helped I guess were appreciative and told the judges and, well, I guess we did something right, because we won Rookie All-Star. Nobody was more surprised than us, really.
Don
*It's not about the robot.