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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
You don't see teams making many groundbreaking additions or non-critical upkeep on the machines and there likely isn't a lot of scouting either.
However, your example meant to provide contrary evidence of an FRC offseason event being comparable to an NFL preseason game cites something that happens consistently at FRC offseasons: teams don't put in their top drive team for every offseason match of every event they attend.
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I would actually argue the opposite. Teams have greater freedom to modify their robot during the off season because the rules are more relaxed and the robot isn't in a crate so you can make changes more easily. Teams can also put the competition into perspective and make a much more competitive robot.
Also, I'm talking from experience and I remember my team put a lot of effort into off season events. Maybe not all teams do, but my team competed like it was any competition and I'm sure many other teams have a similar mindset. Also I know some off season events are taken very seriously. IRI is the first one that comes to mind.