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Originally Posted by fuzzy1718
You know who you are, and I ask you to please stop stepping on the lower budget teams. 
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There are alot of things in life that you cannot control. The one thing you can is your attitude. You can choose to be hostile and defensive towards these teams and learn nothing and maintain your stagnant existence or you can close to actually learn from these people if you let them teach you.
First things first. It's not just about the robot or the money. Over the years of watching competition the one thing that stands out about upper echelon teams is their strategy and their scouting. The hit the field with a sense of purpose and an understanding of what has to be done to come out successful. It is astonishing how many teams show up to competition without any clue of what they are going to do or how they are going to do it. Every day is Thursday and they're just out there doing their own thing. It's like they just saw the game animation and just left it at that and never bothered ever reading the rules.
You know why veteran teams pick other veterans? Trust. They know what they are getting (consistency mainly), they know what to expect from them and they know they can count on them when the going gets tough.
In the three team alliance era it is possible for lesser teams to taste victory as well. You don't need to build the "killer ap" to succeed. You just need to fill a need. Think of the qualifying rounds as a job interview and you are selling your services to the other teams to the point where they are going to say "They need you!"