[wendymom]

I can only say what happened with Exploding Bacon and Team BAD. We both had FRC teams and then added FTC teams later to give the kids something to work on during the fall.

As for overlap? I'm thinking more about time overlap than distance. We run into issues when kids who have been doing FTC all fall want to morph into FRC while the FTC season is still going. Either they neglect FTC, or they don't join into the FRC build until late in the season and they have a harder time getting up to speed. We finally had a rule last year that if you wanted to drive the FTC bot, you could not apply to be the FRC driver. We did two years with both FTC and FRC teams making it to World Champs. We only had 20 or so kids on the team at the time. It was very hard to maneuver.

As for distance......I have families that drive close to an hour to come to meetings. (and every night during build)