My team generally runs on the philosophy of;
"We do what we do-with what we have"
Yes, I'm kind of jelous when I see other teams with robots that look way cooler than ours.(machined parts and stuff like that) But I feel like there is no need for that, I mean, we could go out and find a machine shop to sponser us, and that would be nice, but we dont need that kind of stuff to be successful in our minds.
My team has never won a Regional or Off-season competition. Yes, it's frustrating to loose to basically the same teams at UCF every year, and I've only got one more year to drive the robot, but I just let it go, and think. "we'll get it next year"
I don't think there is any real "jelousy" on my team, we just keep to ourselves and dont worry about how good other teams robots may be, we play at one of the toughest regionals is FIRST, but we dont get upset or "jelous" when we loose to teams that have won there nearly 4 times in a row. We just concentrate on getting better for next year so we can put up an even bigger fight, we did this after 09' and it almost got us a win this year. so I guess it works?