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Re: Who would like to see longer matches?

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Originally Posted by XaulZan11 View Post
Who are these spectators that you are referring to? Are they people already involved in FIRST or complete non-FIRST people? If it is the later, I don't think we should change the competition model for a very very small group of people.
Its a very very small group of people because there is nothing to keep them coming back, there is no value proposition for them. FIRST should be a spectator sport, but its not. I think it would be very valuable to FIRSTs agenda to have the goal of turning that small group of people, into a larger audience.

To achieve this it would have to be more of a sport and less of robotics.

In my opinion for FIRSTs business model to cross the chasm, non FIRST spectators are essential.

I'd personally love to see betting at the las vegas regional . It would be an incredible fundraiser...
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