What Makes a FIRST Team Successful?

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by DanielBCR

In FIRST, success = inspiration.

I personally find the reverse much more true: inspiration = success.

In 2005, our team came in 27th seed at our regional. We were not picked for the finals, even though teams lower than us were. But we used the camera, and we got it to almost score in autonomous during a practice round. We were the only ones at our regional that could consistently find the vision tetra.

We accomplished this because the team was inspired to attempt something we knew was beyond our (then) current capabilities. We pushed ourselves and succeeded, and no one was bitter that we didn't place well because we had been inspired, and we'd succeeded in our own way.