Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

haha, this is a very cunning idea.

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

I think next time I'm asked I'll respond with something like this:

"Well, let's look at evolution. First cavemen hit each other with clubs, and now we're building technology. In Battlebots, we're cavemen. In FIRST, we managed to go through 2000 years of history into the new age of using technology to help others."

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

I usually say "No, but it'd be cool if we did that at the end of our season." Then they ask me what we do during our season. Reverse psychology always works on the simple-minded.

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

We do do that at the end of our season. I thought everybody did:confused: .











Just kidding:D

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

Basically everyone asks me if they're battle bots. I return with the clear fact that FIRST is more fun.

Also look at this field from when I saw live battlebots in Texas:



BORING.

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

well, a couple of the guys on my team joke that they should go start a battle bots team, so that when somebody asks "Is it like battle bots?!?", they can finally say "Yes, it is just like battle bots" :]

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Although... these televised robotics events still aren't bad. Sure, the ignorance of the general public does tend to gripe us a lot, but accidentally watching Robot Wars as a small child pretty much set me on the path to robotics. Its the 'gateway drug' for robotics, if you want to make a terrible analogy. Over time, people will begin to understand FIRST and appreciate it more.

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

I hope so also but I don't think so as I see a decay in cultural so I think that understanding will be hard to come by

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

After the first couple times I was asked this annoying question I started preemptively saying "the robots are not designed to damage each other, unlike battle bots"

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

Before bumpers (and even after them) some pretty violent incidents have occurred, self-destruction can be quite impressive, but I don't know of any documented cases from first, I do know, however, that in at least 2 locations on the internet that have a video of 190 and some other team fighting to defend/ attach to the bar in '04. the other team wound up pushing 190 into the stationary goal which provided the correct tipping moment too over-turn the defending robot, 190 fell forward and its hook caught the bar and, in the process of lifting itself, it ran over its immobilized opponent. It is an impressive video.

Oh, I almost forgot the 'mauling' of M.O.E. in '02, yet another impressive encounter.

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

As I have now competed in both, I ussualy say something like:
"No, I enjoy FIRST events much more than battlebots. It is much more like a sport."

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

I get it all the time too, my default response is along the lines of:

"Its like battlebots in the sense that the robots are on the same approximate scale, and operate via radio control, etc. Its NOT like battlebots, in that we play a competitive game, as opposed to trying to destroy the other bots."

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If they automatically associate "robotics" with "Battle Bots", ask them if the rovers on Mars fight to destroy each other. Ask them if factory robots tear different line robots apart until they're immobile.

Don't get me wrong, I love watching Robot Wars and Battle Bots on TV, but FIRST is much more exciting than those shows will ever be.

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I've definitely gotten this before, but once I explain what FIRST is they usually end up liking it better anyway. Besides, at this point pretty much everyone I've ever talked to knows what FIRST is.

Re: When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?
 

And first has alot more potential longevity than BattleBots, if you know what i mean.