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Originally Posted by Jonell:)
I couldn't agree more. You don't want teams coming in knowing they have to play hard defense on you. You want those few beginning matches where they don't know what to do with you yet.
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Yeah. 'Course, I do remember one team in 2007 came in with 2 regional wins and they didn't get much defense until their second match--their first, they made one ring solo and had another tube on and were about to get another on when the match ended. That kind of thing didn't exactly last long, though, as their alliances didn't do that sort of thing again until elims.
You come in plugging your team, you make any target they do have bigger. To make matters worse (unless you
are that good), divisions are MUCH tougher than regionals. If you can't back up the talk, you may set up a reputation for your team as a team that talks big and walks small. I personally would much rather have a reputation as a team that talks small (or not at all) and walks tall.
Let others do the plugging for you. It works out better.
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2003-2007: FRC0330 BeachBots
2008: FRC1135 Shmoebotics
2012: FRC4046 Schroedinger's Dragons
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