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Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game

ok, no metrics are necessary - I am just trying to bring more people in to get interest in this - though at a certain level it *is* a little bit of selfishness, because the team (and FIRST in general) needs a little more recognition - and our team (like most teams out there I'm sure) needs money. I can't get money without the attention - good or bad (but definitely hoping it's all good).

I don't need metrics or Robot Wars or whatever - I myself actually didn't even know about Robot Wars until several years after I'd started FIRST - maybe I'm closeted or something. And funny enough. I only get that "Robot Wars" reaction maybe 25% of the time. It comes up once in awhile, but definitely much much much less than half of the time.

and Robot Wars is coming back now, so that's going to be another problem come next season.

All I am saying is, "I" and the team don't have any problems with the game - other than the fact that it is - from our perspective and the anecdotal "metric" of looking at my visitors faces and their frantic search for words "that don't insult me" (such as lame) when I show them "look our robot stacks boxes" as compared to "look, our robot shoots/kicks balls/frisbees or races around a track tossing balls or anything else"... - getting more blank stares from my visitors and parents.

I want to show them a game where it's very obviously team-oriented, that it's something akin to some type of sport - so that there is no problem in their minds to make that small leap from what they are already familiar with to what I want them to know - which is what we do is very relatable... As you know, sometimes you only have a few short seconds to make a pitch, the more I have to explain, the quicker they lose interest.

I am interested in converting more minds quicker and not turning them off. If that's a metric, that's the one I'm interested in. I really could careless about Robot Wars - it's pretty much the first thing I immediately discount fairly early in the program each season. FIRST brings the added value of GP and Professionalism that I don't see in VEX or Robot Wars (no insult to any of the other fine programs, I'm sure there are great people playing it. It's just not necessarily a front-and-center stated value)
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