The Future of FRC Teams....

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by fuzzwaz

The reason I asked this question was because it seems like (In my opinion) that a changing in a team’s success can happen at any point in time. I feel like our teams success has “hopped” all over the place for the past few years.

-In 2005 we were world champs!
-In 2006 we lost to 217 during the finals on Einstein

Which is interesting, because at Great Lakes we got down to the final alliance selection and both 503 and 67 - defending world champs - were on the sideline waiting to be picked. HOT got the spot, 503 waited for Atlanta.

-In 2007 we lost during the finals on Galileo
-In 2008 we were not picked at the Championship event
-In 2009 we lost in the Semis with 1114 on Archimedes
-In 2010 we did not get picked at States, nor did we get picked at worlds

... we thought ourselves gods and fell from the top of Olympus! ...

I wouldn't be that hard on yourself. You have a good solid program that shows itself in so many ways off the field - kickoff, practice field, FLL support, etc. Sometimes a design or other decision about the robot can make you uncompetitive for a year (meaning you won't be in the finals, not that you will lose every game). That's nothing to be ashamed of - learn from the mistakes and come back better the next year.