[Tungrus]

May be I have not seen or heard, but personally I would respect FTC and FLL. I have been to World Championship for FLL, somehow we felt it same way as you think. I don't know how FTC teams operate but in my humble opinion FLL team members probably deserve better admiration. They build and run fully autonomous robot to do tasks! Hats off to those team members. Yes, they would have got help from coaches/mentors, but on the field its the two team members and their robot at the competition table. More over too much is expected from FLL teams.... research project, team work, presentation to community/school and what not! And these kids are middle and elementary school.