What makes the Good, So good?

[Chris]

This is a question I’ve been pondering for quite some time, and wanted peoples opinions of it.

Every year some teams consistently field a robot that is just better than the rest. What makes these teams so good? They know who they are, 71 with back to back Championships, 60,118,308,254,343.33,45,47,157,126 and countless more. What makes these teams so good in you opinion?
Is it one or two dedicated mentors that just always lead the team in the right direction?
More money?
More school support?
Just a great group of students, (if this were true each teams reign would only last so long)
Or just great team chemistry.

Conversely you could look at it from the other perspective, what makes some of the great gracious teams such good role models? Some teams just come to my mind when you think of gracious professionalism 175,190,131 etc. What makes them get FIRST better than others?

This is just meant as a thinking question and I’m curious as to what responses I get.


Chris
Team 151
The Wildcards