Thread: Ideas to move in the direction of making FIRST competitions 'fair'
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Re: Ideas to move in the direction of making FIRST competitions 'fair'
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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
And building off of Andy's comment. Many years ago, Dave Miller, a mentor working with a certain NASA team decided that he didn't like something with FIRST. At that time, it had no programming aspect at all. What did he do? Found BotBall. He founded a robotics competition that suited his style and what he felt should and needed to be accomplished by it.
Good point, Sean... I'll try to expand on it.

Another guy went off and started BBIQ (Mike Bastoni still is productive within FIRST, although not seen, but that's another story).

Back in the mid-90's in Texas, a group of people wanted things simpler than FIRST and started BEST.

I'm sure there are more. These people decided not to try to change FRC into something else... they decided to CREATE and INSPIRE in a different way by being productive in a new arena.

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