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Re: Curie 2010!

There's something about the human psyche that loves to push the rules. To find that one genius little trick to wiggle past some daunting wall carries with it a subtle pleasure, if a bit of a misguided one. Competitions are really good a calling out these desires, especially at such a high level.

I love FRC, and to imagine it without a feel of competitiveness is impossible. That desire to win must be present, it possesses (and consequently never fails to utilize) the ability to draw out the best qualities and ideas from those participating. At the same time though we can't totally forget about our principles in the excitement. There is a very fine line between competitiveness and spite.

-my $0.02

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Originally Posted by Tarzan19
I think we need to get off the subject of how to beat other teams or how talking about how to beat other teams is bad in some sense. I am guessing there are threads for that. This thread is for the Curie division of the First Robotics Championship. Lets get back to talking about how awsome this division is going to play out and how intense the qualifying and elimination matchs are going to be.
Agreed. I really hope that I have the opportunity to catch a bit of the action via webcast. I've never seen globals before, and it'd be a real treat to see the best at work.
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