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I think FRC is not a competition. There is a competition inside FRC, where teams work to create an effective robot, strategy and drive team to outperform their peers in an arena (not a MEGA kind of competition as ebarker said, but a competition nonetheless). However, the point of FRC is in line with the point of FIRST. "Winning" FRC is not a matter of beating the opponent, it's a matter of making a difference in your community. The game is a component of that - it encourages students to pursue STEM careers and it gets lay persons interested in those STEM fields, and it serves as a good starting point - but it is not the goal in and of itself.