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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
Oftentimes it is so overstated it is lying even if it is well intentioned. In 2008 at BAE we asked teams in the pit what they though a realistic estimate of their hurdles/match would be over the course of qualifiers. The average team told us 4, yet come noon Saturday only four teams had averaged two hurdles per match, one was very close to three. Interestingly, all five of those teams had come close to correctly guessing how many hurdles/match they would be worth.
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You ask a team to make a guess about a game they have never played with a robot they have barely driven? No surprise they got it wrong. A bad guess is not a lie. You should give these young and inexperienced teams/members a break. If a team tells me on Thursday morning that they can shoot the moon, I know they are telling me their hopes for their design. If they stick to that story on Saturday morning, and still haven't achieved it, then they are probably lying and trusting them is problematic.
FIRST is hard. It's supposed to be. We can't keep giving people a check and expecting them to succeed. We need to stop this model. It takes a village to raise a child but it takes a community to build a FIRST team. - Andrew Schreiber [more] 
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