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That's what the pits are for! Any spare time I had at nationals was spent wandering around looking at the robots.

I'm not sure how the offseason events work, but I would think it is much less formal and you could spend more time talking to other teams about their robots. If possible, you could get the organizer to stop the matches for a few hours on one of the days and set aside some extra time to look at all of the robots.

I think organizing an event for the sole purpose of showing robots wouldn't attract too many teams.