MaxPreps and Competitive High School Robotics

[ChuckDickerson]

At least in the South, high school football is king. It’s all about Friday night and everyone (at least around here) keeps up with team schedules, scores, rankings, and highlights through websites like MaxPreps. I assume MaxPreps is popular elsewhere.

My question is should “robotics” be covered on MaxPreps like football, baseball, basketball, soccer, etc.? If so, how do we get MaxPreps to include competitive high school robotics? I would love to see a MaxPreps version of The Blue Alliance type stats and team data for scouting, etc. I would also think getting competitive robotics stats listed on MaxPreps would be a big step toward making FIRST/FRC/FTC/VEX/Best/etc. as recognizable as other mainstream high school sports nationwide. I know there is always a heated debate on Chief Delphi on whether “robotics” is a legitimate “sport” or not but MaxPreps currently covers cheer, dance, drill, and speech as co-ed “sports” so why not robotics? I would assert that in my experience with FRC, competitive high school robotics is at least as much of a sport as any of those.