[Pamela]

I feel that Battlebots IQ could be a wonderful program for many FIRST participants, but this posted letter I feel should not have been put up on this sight. If Battlebots was not run at the same time frame as FIRST I could understand pulling FIRSTers into it. But to basically put up and advertisement for a program which would require teams to choose one or the other on a website promoting FIRST is uncalled for. If the dates were late summer or early fall I'm sure many teams would be happy to have a robotic competition to compete in on the "off-season" Its not a matter of beating up robots or not, you will still learn from either program. But loyalties need to lie with FIRST right now so we can support there hard decisions about how to handle so many teams.