The Stereotyping of Successful Teams

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Originally Posted by apples000

There is a common misconception that the Hall of Fame teams do well and make it into the hall of fame because of their sponsors. This is not true. HoF teams have good sponsors because they work hard. A comment I heard a lot was about team 118, and how their robot is designed by NASA engineers in a NASA facility and they do well because they are rich. This is completely wrong. The robonauts get to work with great engineers and have great sponsors because of the amount of work all of their dedicated students put in each year.

I remember a story from an old Karthik speech, I think about the Cheesy Poofs. He said there was a year when they lost their welding(?) sponsor, but the kids really wanted to be able to weld their robot. By the time they hit the S in the phone book, they had one. They literally called every single one in the phone book.

Great things don't just happen to HoF teams; HoF teams make great things happen.