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Are you asking in the context of your robot or as a citizen of FIRST?
If your asking what do we think of your robot: You were great. You won the nationals. Congratulations. Good luck next year.
If your asking as a citizen of FIRST let me ask you this question: What was more important to you: Winning the National championship or winning the Chairman's award?
Should Buzz Robotics be in here asking the same thing as should all the other regional Chairman's award winners?
If you didn't have a good robot this year does that make you a bad team? If you had a good robot this year does that mean your a good team? Who's to judge?
I think there are far too many teams going around with a "Us vs. Them" attitude. Winning is all that matters to them. They don't really understand the concept of FIRST. If your robot doesn't win then you r efforts are in vain.It might as well just be Battlebots.
The one thing I really appreciated about FIRST was the authentic camraderie between the competing teams but I also noticed a disturbing element of teams that were quite nasty and put down other teams. Let the competition part of it go to their head. FIRST doesn't need that.
Everybody rolls their eyes when FIRST says "you're all winners". They're not rying to be PC. All teams, whether they win the national championship or come in last in their division worked long and hard on their robot and desreve repsect. Winning the competition is a bonus to FIRST's intentions which was to inspire youth to look to science and technology as a career path. The six weeks (or more) is the acual competition. If you can make it to the end then you've accomplished alot.
The same teams who had sucess have been posting their sucess on this page and I think the teams that have not been as sucessful have been feeling too welcome. I not knocking your sucess but if you don't grow from it then what have you suceeed at?
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