Thread: FIRST as a sport?
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Re: FIRST as a sport?
I do consider it a sport. Yeah, it's not a "traditional" sport, but the FRC fits the definition of a sport very well. Here's a defintition I found online, which I know has been posted here hundreds of times before:

sport - an activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively

The FIRST community (that's us!) defines the FRC as a sport, and that's why we have TBA, Fantasy FIRST, etc. We saw it as a sport, so we created these things to increase the sense of this being a sport. I'm not saying that we fabricated the concept of the FRC being a sport; it has been a sport since 1992.

The FRC is a sport. It is also a very unique sport, for many of the reasons previously mentioned.
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