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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
More professional sports analogies:
LeBron James can take the opportunity to retool the starting 5 he plays on when he calls up 9 of his closest contemporaries on the court for a rousing game of basketball at his house. While ESPN may want to carry the feed, the Elias Sports Bureau probably has better, more official things to do.
Even the FIBA Gold Cup is an event held by a major sanctioning body, but Anthony Davis' FIBA stats aren't coming up in the NBA books.
You want to bring up IRI? MLB doesn't count any statistics in official books for their all-star game either, even if some people walk home with special hardware.
If you want to challenge my anecdote of "not everyone is going out there with every resource they can muster to win the Alliterative Offseason of the week" with "my team does", that's your prerogative. Still doesn't make any of these events FRC-sanctioned events with any official meeting, which is the point Andrew was making earlier.
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I agree with that point, I just don't agree that we should completely ignore what a mecanum wheeled robot did just because they did it at an off season event.