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Re: Clash of Objectives.
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Originally Posted by waialua359 View Post
FRC=FIRST Robotics Competition
FIRST=For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
I'll piggyback on waialua359's earlier post.

If you are competing to earn top honors in FIRST, you are explicitly competing to earn a Chairmans Award, and only implicitly (or as a side project) (or not at all) striving to earn a Tournament Champion award.

The top honor teams compete to earn in the FIRST Robotics Competition is not the Tournament Champion award.

So, Yes, FRC is a competition (a competition aka a "coopertition"), and the way you become one of that competition's winners is by earning one of the FRC Chairmans Awards.

If you are going to complain, at least complain about FIRST planning to give out more than one of their most important award (but before you do it, ask yourself if complaining about that makes much sense).

Is there anything, unclear, inconsistent, or incorrect about what I have written here? Does it misrepresent what FRC is?

If not, can we stop bickering about whether future seasons will have one, or two, or more Tournament Champions? Please? The number of Tournament Champions is interesting, but crowning a single Tournament Champion (alliance) is explicitly not FIRST's purpose.

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