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Re: Is FIRST a robot building CONTEST?
FIRST, since its beginning has been a work in progress as all things are. You can never really expect for every team to get the main focus down of FIRST. Besides, at every competition there is a tournament. To translate, it is to robots like the North American International Auto Show is to cars and the Electronic Entertainment Expo is to video games. You have your first-party, second-party, and third-party developers working for each group. In no group will you find the perfect individual company or group for the respective genre.
FIRST emulates this real-world situation beautifully. You have teams that keep FIRST alive, either providing excitement to the game at hand or spreading the word to lands in which this concept is foreign territory, or they're in between.
It is this emulation that provides a great learning experience for all, no matter how much they know already. So, it is a robot building contest, but in a real-world sense.
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