[ahecht]

While i've only had firsthand experience with FIRST, I know people on several BB and robotica teams, and they all involve the same basic principals of Gracious Professionalism and focus on strategy and engineering that FIRST does, despite how comedy central might portray them. The only robot show I think is truely bad is TNN's Robot Wars, where losing robots are crunched and torched by overweight "house bots" weilding flamethrowers. Also, the fact that a WWF wrestler hosts it doesn't help. I just hope that we don't get into the "us vs. them" mentality that has taken over so many other online groups I participate in (such as the Pocket PC vs. Palm and Sony vs. Palm in the handheld world, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, etc).