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Re: MaxPreps and Competitive High School Robotics

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Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson View Post
I know there is always a heated debate on Chief Delphi on whether “robotics” is a legitimate “sport” or not but MaxPreps currently covers cheer, dance, drill, and speech as co-ed “sports” so why not robotics?
While these sports are on the MaxPreps website I would hardly say they are covered by it... the drill section has 7 teams all in New Mexico and 99% of the teams in the speech area are from Nebraska. Looks to me like an individual state is using the MaxPreps website to track some of their information and it isn't well updated. I would argue that if robotics is going to get on the MaxPreps website there are a lot of other well established competitions (choir, marching band, chess...) that should be also and aren't.

I think we've got the content of MaxPreps elsewhere, it just needs to be more organized.
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