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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
I think FIRST Frenzy is now old enough that the large proportion of FRC has forgotten about it. Per Mark McLeod, the mean FRC team is only 4.4 years old, and the median team is almost certainly even younger. Even the high school students during FIRST Frenzy are probably starting to reach the point in their careers where they may have enough other time commitments that they don't mentor teams anymore. |
As a quick approximation, the 1300th team on last year's team list is 3058, and their rookie season was 2009.
Our team was around in 2004, but I wasn't - I started in 2009, our seniors started in 2010, and we only have a couple of mentors left from our 2004 team.
It just goes to show that FIRST can safely recycle big chunks of a game from 8 years ago and not bore most of the people in FIRST. If they do it in a smart way, of course. Based on most of the comments I've seen about FIRST Frenzy, it would probably be pretty fun if they paid homage to the 2004 game with a new game that revisited the basic game with new twists.