This year's "game" is a job, not a game

[pmangels17]

Originally Posted by jman4747

It's our job to get new people in the door not the GDC. Dean needs us to make it loud no matter whats going on at the field. The game is not bad.

Firstly, the GDC is our version of product design. It is always the job of designers (GDC) to create an appealing product that consumers (teams), so as to attract enough consumers to increase profits (which don't have to be monetary profits). We hold it on them to create a game that attracts the interest of competitors and spectators alike, like Apple expects the iPhone team to produce an iPhone that consumers want to buy. This extends past just recruiting new members. You can't market the "Sport for the Mind" if the sport is competitive box stacking, and you can't expect sponsors (especially new sponsors) to donate to a team that basically builds a miniature forklift, because there are already forklifts. It'd be like me investing in your company to invent the wooden wheel; it has already been done.

Secondly, and I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, it isn't about what Dean wants or needs us to do. I have the utmost respect for Dean for starting something huge, and something that I love. However, FIRST is a community larger than one man, and we should be making it loud for students, for teams, for schools, for our friends, for our generation, and for our future, not because one man needs us to. This is a point that I cannot stress enough. Dean is awesome, but if you do things because Dean says you should, you are missing part of the point.