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Originally Posted by EricH
On the other hand, an FTC team's build and competition season stretches over nearly a full school year, if I'm not mistaken. An FRC team's offseason is the first half of the school year, while FRC's competition season only lasts for the second half...
I'd be willing to bet that if you stacked up FTC and FRC total time commitments, they'd be pretty close, as far as building and competing go. (Other items, no contest it'll be FRC eating the time.)
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Well the FTC build season length varies greatly depending on area and how well the team does. In our area the FTC competition season is in Nov and Dec with the state CMP in January if the team makes it that far.
For FTC I'd estimate a low of 70hrs and a high of 140hrs per season in our area.
For FRC I'd estimate a low of 250 hrs and a high of 360 hrs per competition season in our area.
Note we do a league play format for FTC so 3 plays before the state CMP and we do the District System for FRC so two plays before DCMP and in both of those cases the time I estimated did not include moving on to the state/District CMP.
The other thing is that even in an area with a long FTC season the time commitment per week is low so it allows time to study for all those AP classes, and other activities while the usual 6 days per week of many FRC teams makes it hard to do those other things too.