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Re: Competition is good

Posted by Robby at 1/9/2001 9:40 AM EST


Other on team #108, The SigmaC@Ts, from AIFL and Motorola.


In Reply to: Competition is good
Posted by Jason Iannuzzi on 1/9/2001 8:43 AM EST:



Why did you join? Why are you still with your team? Did you first see an event before you joined? Was it merely the excitement from random spectators that made you decide to join? Or was it the excitement from TEAM MEMBERS? And why are those team members getting excited and cheering like mad?

Because they know the time and energy put into each and every part of thier robot. Team members cheer if thier robot does great or if thier robot breaks on the field. Team members cheer merely to give thier drivers encouragement to drive thier machine. When was the last time you saw a random spectator walk out of disney world, onto the lawn of the competition, and start cheering like mad?

The people who cheer are the teams. People interested in building those machines will join the teams merely for the fact that you get to build a cool robot. If you joined merely to travel to disney and regionals, to get out of school just for cheering on a robot, why should you still be a part of FIRST? For the most part, you have to do some kind of work on the robot or for the team to make it to most events. At least, thats how some teams handle it.

Teams that have allowed students who did nothing with the robot, who missed meetings, and talked back at teachers, to travel with the team usually dont stick together that well. Believe me, I've seen it happen first hand.

I've already said the "You havent seen a match" comment. This is HOPEFULLY my last post to this topic because there is no point on continuing it. Build your robot, get out there, try it, and see what happens. Or one should leave FIRST if one truly feel that FIRST isnt serving thier needs. My suggestion would be to go invest thier own money into Battle Bots.

FIRST sets goals to achieve, not feed one robots to destroy.

-Robby O
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