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Re: Is FIRST a Sport
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
you are only rating FIRST from the human perspective

what about the robot? clearly the games ARE a robot sport, when you rate physical contact, harm and injury

strenght (a robot pulling 120A from a 12 volt battery is expending 1440 watts (1.93HP) - which is about equal to the power output of six 18 year old male athletes.)

from the robots perspective FIRST is absolutely a sport. Compare what our robots do vs something like a Roomba, or the Mars Rovers!
Also take into account the BUILD SEASON. If you take into account all of those you will see how you can rate those better.
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