What constitutes the "Best" team?

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Posted by Jon, Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Mass Academy of Math and Science and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Posted on 3/30/99 7:13 PM MST


In Reply to: out on a limb... posted by Joe Johnson on 3/30/99 5:33 PM MST:



:I think that it is in the long term best interest of the game to have the teams that are generally agreeed to be great do well.

:If FIRST allows too many cinderella stories, then I think that the incentive to try to be one of best is largely destroyed.


I can understand too many cinderella stories because it would upset the balance, but i think that so far FIRST has done a pretty good job in creating the games so that even rookie teams stand a chance against the dynasties.
I can't even begin to imagine that the incentive to be the best could be destroyed. yes, this is a learning experience and everything, but it'd be nice if you won a couple too!
what having weird games like this allows is for everyone to have a chance and young teams to not be discouraged from putting their entire hearts into it and getting somewhere. If these games didn't have the potential to change in the blink of an eye, they wouldn't even be half as exciting.
Last year i was on a rookie team (#57 HSEP/Exxon Tigers) and we were surprised and very excited to break into the top 10 and be recognized at the SW regional due to our human player/machine interaction.
Part of that small victory is what drove me to attend WPI and become one of 190's engineers...
Chalk another future engineer/scientist to the FIRST cause!

jon