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Re: Marketing
Posted by Peter VanWylen, Student on team #107, Team ROBOTICS, from Holland Christian High School and Metal Flow Corp..
Posted on 4/7/99 11:39 AM MST
In Reply to: Marketing posted by Tom Wible on 3/30/99 7:23 PM MST:
Marketing to Judges:
I also agree that there is too much marketing. Many teams went out and passed out 'awards' too every team:
'TEAM X congratulates you for winning the Team X ________ award'
Our team left with 5 or 6 of these rather meaningless 'awards.' The reason why they are meaningless: Team X is really just trying to get the real Sportsmanship award. Judges just love that kind of thing. So, when the judge walks up and starts talking, 'SO what special things has your team done...?' All of the sudden a couple students pop out of nowhere and start showing some of the awards that they gave to other teams. The Judges think: 'What good sports!!'
Really, the Team X creativity award doesn't do much other than earn Team X the official sportsmanship award.
I understand that I am being somewhat stereotypical here. There might be some teams out there that do this for more that marketing to the judges, but atleast a lot of them were.
Marketing to other teams:
There is also too much inter-team marketing. By the end of the Great Lakes regional, our pit was littered with quite a few nice looking adds for Team X:
-Team X can climb the puck
-Team X can grab the pole
-We have a very reliable lift mechanism
-We excell in DEFENSE!
REMEMBER TEAM X: reliable, fast, and capable!!!
Really Team X can waste as much paper as they see fit, but IF we were in the top 8 seeds, would we really listen to your advertisment?
Please, these can become rather annoying, and they don't help your chances much at all.
Sorry to all the Team X's that I may have offended. Even our team considered doing these things, so I know how tempting these can be.
Good luck in FL to all,
-Peter
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