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[PVCpirate]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

I have to disagree... it is precisely those small teams that are the most inspirational to me....

When I look at the rankings and see a team ranked highly that I don't know much about, and I head down to the pits to check out their robot and see a kitbot with a decidedly inexpensive looking manipulator, that's FIRST for me. Because those kids and their mentor(s) didn't have a lot of resources, but they survived build season and managed to create a winning machine. When I see this robot on the field and it scores or plays defense or whatever it does and does it well, I realize how much more that means when you consider how much it took just to get it on the field. And if it beats one of these shiny machines from a team like 118 or 254 or 67, that inspires me just as much as the shiny robots do.