[sebas2mil]

I would like to point out one situation that might strike one of the points DanTod was trying to make about the fact that during competition these teams are power houses well here it goes:

During the Florida Regional we were seated 5th and got picked by 233(after 5 years of having a team this is the first time that we were paired up with them) and we also picked 86

233 I believe is one of the power houses of FIRST and they deserve it given the fact that they have been in a lot of finals and also received recognition with things other than their robot but their program itself.
This year 233 has been a growing star from barely seeing them at the practice field on Thursday at Florida to being undefeated in Hawaii until they lost one match in the semis.

Well I'll get to the point during match 2 of the semi finals at Florida we ended up placing a ball at the last second that go us the win instead of the tie and allowed us to go to the finals and later on win the regional

what I'm trying to say is that no one team does it on their own, if we hadn't placed that ball up there maybe we would of tied and lost the regional which wouldn't of been the end of the world. the other alliance (79,801,348) was one of the toughest alliances there

Even 1114 who has been unstoppable with their 42-6-0 record this year has had help from their partners, during their first regional I don't think they could of done it without 1024 and it goes the other way for 1114

I believe that the strong teams that maybe be ran by NASA engineers are only as good as how you perceive them because after all they are man made and student driven so if you just think of it as "wow what a great machine" and sit there and analyze the parts and how the things are designed then you might get that spark to do something like that on your own as a high school student or college student

This is what I try to pass on to students when I mentor 1251 or LEGO league if you are intimidated by these teams and don't have anything better to do but call them unfair because they are winning and they have a great design then I'm sorry but you are jealous (my opinion )

Sebas