The reason I asked this question was because it seems like (In my opinion) that a changing in a team’s success can happen at any point in time. I feel like our teams success has “hopped” all over the place for the past few years.
-In 2005 we were world champs!
-In 2006 we lost to 217 during the finals on Einstein
-In 2007 we lost during the finals on Galileo
-In 2008 we were not picked at the Championship event
-In 2009 we lost in the Semis with 1114 on Archimedes
-In 2010 we did not get picked at States, nor did we get picked at worlds
What I believed was that the quality of our robot was suffering because of the mentality of the group. After 07, we would NEVER think that it was our robot that was the problem, but it was the other things. It was never the robot; we always thought that we had a good chance to win it no matter what our robot was like. This mentality was born because after 05 and 06, our team just assumed that we were good. Is this what happened with HOT after 05? No idea… All I do know is that our entire team’s history changed because of it. If we stayed “dominant” even after 06 would we be as popular as HOT? This is what I mean by the changing in a team’s success. We both won worlds for the first time in 2005. In 2006 we were very close to winning it again. HOT came back and created a dynasty while we thought ourselves gods and fell from the top of Olympus! Who knows what will happen next? I don’t
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