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Disappointed by lack of FIRST coverage
Posted by Jason Iannuzzi.

Engineer on team #11, Marauders, from Mt. Olive HS. and BASF, Rame Hart, CCM.

Posted on 8/30/2000 6:41 AM MST



I'm becoming more and more upset with the lack of support and coverage that FIRST receives in the press.

Think about this, Battlebots has a series on basic cable, Robowars has pay-per-view special, Robo World Cup and the previous two have all had countless writeups in the past few weeks in various news sources. Now consider that if you combined the support (monetary, manpower, and otherwise) that they all receive, combined they don't even come close to FIRST. Not even close.

FIRST has at least 12,000 active participants (contestants). Battlebots has 200 (I think), Robowars a few more, and Robo World Cup a few less.

FIRST has 10's of millions of dollars in financial support from over 2 dozen Fortune 500 companies, NASA, and scores of smaller companies. Last time I looked, I didn't see one ad from any company on the sides of any Battlebot or Robowar participant.

The only logical conclusion I can draw from these facts is that in the 12,000+ FIRST-aholics, not one of us has any immediate relation to anyone in any position of programming power in a large media company. Bad luck huh?
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