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Re: Explaining the FIRST Competition to Others...

How I describe the it is the process. I tell them, image that baseball was just invented the first saturday of the year. You have 6 weeks to come up with a strategy and get as good as you can. The rules are the ball weighs this much, bases are this far apart, you can have 9 people on the field, hit it over the fence it is a homerun, etc. But the catch is, once you decide a strategy, you can't change it dramatically. Then they say "that doesnt sound too bad." where i respond with, of course not. The system of baseball has been perfected. The answer is so obvious once it is found, but the answer is never really discovered. Multiple methods solve the problem just fine, but some better than others.
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