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Unread 01-12-2001, 00:51
Jon Lawton Jon Lawton is offline
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Re: Annoying
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Originally posted by Matt Ryan
Whenever I go canning and say the word "robotics", people automatically say "YOU'RE IN BATTLEBOTS?!?" and then I explain how its FIRST Robotics and explain it...and then they say "oh..." and walk away.

Guaranteed to happen.

All people want is wanton destruction, not something beneficial such as this.

Ticks me off...

Battlebots is on top because of popularity.
I get a similar response from most people. It really *IS* quite irksome. I don't think that Battle Bots and FIRST Robotics are mutually exclusive at all, but people seem more apt to flock towards the Comedy Central hoo-hah (the "announcers" in suits always crack me up). Then again, FIRST Robotics hasn't really been displayed on TV much (as far as I know). Mabye this walking away reaction is just a classic case of pre-judgement? With that bridge last season, there was plenty of carnage in FIRST for me! 8)
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