[ManicMechanic]

Last year, a very small (6 student) FRC team started up about 1/2 hour from us. When I asked our FVC team if they would be interested in inquiring about the possibility of joining, they all answered, "Nah -- as it is, we all get to work on the robot every meeting, and if we join an FRC team, we might not get to touch the robot all season." These were kids who had been to Atlanta and seen the best of FRC in action.

One important consideration was that the team didn't, and still doesn't, feel it has reached saturation -- there are many design ideas they still haven't tried out, and while they get better every year, they can see that there's still room at the top to grow. The end is still not in sight, so we have no reason to move to something more expensive.

I suppose 2 important questions to ask are: 1) How would you feel about less hands-on time (which is likely), and 2) Do you feel that there's not much left to learn in FTC (and if so, what more would be learned in FRC).