Longest droughts in FIRST history

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by jagman2882

the X-cats had not won a regional from 1992 through 2004. last year was thier first win ant FLR. thats what id call a drought

and they are the only team to ever win the national chairmans award twice, which (I think) says that they are an excellent team, they have their priorities straight, and have influenced the lives of thousands of HS students directly over the years!

THE debate that continues year after year on CD is whats best for the team vs whats best for the students - professional highly competitive robots or student build, student designed...... Im not going to open that debate in this thread

but I only want to point out (and I dont think many will disagree with this part of it): what is best for the students as individuals is not the path you will take if your primary goal is to win a regional or the championship.

for examples: to reach the most students possible you would not allow any student to be on the team for more than one year, so other students would have the opportunity to participate. To reach the most number of students you would keep branching off new teams, streaching your resources and mentor involvement as thin as possible. To give the students the best exposure to engineering you would have them do different things each year, instead of allowing them to specialize in one aspect of the robot design/build. You would let the students be responsible for as much of the design and build as they could handle, and then push them further out of their comfort zone.

If you disagree with this please dont jump in and turn this thread into another Mentor or Student... debate

My point is, if you are not winning the regionals that does not mean you have a lousy team. It could be a clear indication that you have an excellent team.