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Re: An excellent discussion on #firstrobotics regarding Vex and the future of the US
Blame should not be placed entirely on FIRST or Radioshack for this. While both could have done better jobs at marketing VEX, niether did a bad job. FRC did not explode at first either. For a second year competition to have over 200 teams is a HUGE acheivment. FRC took several years to get anywhere close to that mark.
Do you honestly think FRC could have grown to anything near its current size without the advertisement and outreach done by the teams themselves? With the relatively small number of FVC teams, it is impossible to think that those FVC teams could advertise as well at the 5x as many FRC teams. But even with that numerical disadvantage, FVC's growth has been much much higher than FRC's during it's baby years.
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