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Originally posted by Jnadke
It's not about the trinkets and gizmos that make these off-season competitions great. It's about the teams getting together and having some fun. Sharing ideas. All of that junk is definately not needed. Teams tend to bring their own stuff anyways. If you can get a hold of a sound system, teams tend to bring the music...
"If you build it, they will come." You all know where that came from. Field of Dreams
The best stuff comes in donated form. You can save yourself a lot of money if you can find a school that is willing to let you use their facilities. The field you can build yourself, minus all of the electronics.
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Yes that is correct, the best thing of an off-season competition is to meat teams and have fun. But you also have to understand it is the little things that makes people expierences have a great time.
If you do a cruddy job on your competition, than you will have an audience that will be unimpressed and don't want to come next year. Fortunitly all the competitions I have been to in the past (Mayham, Battlecry, and Riverrage) have all been excellent.
This year, my team sponsor, did a lego league compeition, and it was an excellent one. It had a big screen with video of the field, antoher one for the scores, a webcast so anybody could watch it. It also had a decent sound system, etc. Now that is the competition is what I want, if our team host one. Iroically we have always been wanting to do an off-season for many years now, we have several places in Providence and Middletown we can host it, but no money to host it. But we are always looking for companies that are willing to sponser an event.
I don't know how it is your area, but in New England, there are so many competitions in the area, that it has become a competition almost. We have Rally in the Valley, Mayham @ the Merrymack, Battlecry, Bash @ the Beach, and River Rage. So if you want a large amount of teams to come, you have to make it so they will like it and come back the next time.