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Re: Sport or not?
FIRST is a sport, robotics is not a sport. Robotics is a field of science. First is taking this field of science and placing a competitive twist on it.
The definition of a sport states that it is a event requiring the use of physical skills or MENTAL skills. any person who has played a sport knows its not just your physical skills. If you have no clue what to do when competing, then you will fail. All of my coaches have told me that soccer is 10% physical, 90% mental.
if you consider the level of mental power we put into First then it can equal other non-physical sports like chess or NASCAR. (You compete so they are a sport in my mind).
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