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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
Is there appetite for another off season event in VA, Will?
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I don't know. We didn't do any this year because we couldn't justify an aggressive and expensive rebuild for a game we didn't like and a robot that's not worth retrofitting into a demo bot. We found value in running an intramural arduino robot challenge and regrouping the organization this fall so I could focus on school and work in the fall and take a light load in the winter.
I've thought about going around and petitioning some current programs in the metro area to bring a summer event to Richmond (and even looked at another high school to start a team and run an offseason at their place), but people vastly overestimate our mentor depth chart and school support (I guess it was pretty evident when a few minor changes to my availability in 2015 led the team to put out the worst overall product since I joined the team in the fall of 2008, but I digress).
Myself and other alums alongside mentors and students on 422 have had ideas on how to approach the FRC product from a different angle than the conventional methods but I myself am pretty gassed by May at best. I sorta cycle through making a priority/wish list at the end of every season and usually get hung up trying to remedy priorities before I ever get to wishes. There's always a chance windows close and doors open in my time in FIRST, but I don't see that window opening for a long time unless a lot of dominoes fall that are outside of my control.
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I also wanna say that it's cool that the two teams that won, won. There are a lot of things that motivate me and the rest of the crew in green and black, but seeing some re-emergence of grizzled veterans is a big positive motivation in my well-documented sea of negatives and a feather in the cap of all teams in the region.