Attention L.A. Area Teams! Unique Cooler Master Opportunity

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Knufire

It's very common for many PC component manufacturers to have forum representatives like CMBrandon. They're much more common on actual computing forums, but what CMBrandon posts isn't outside the realm of what's normal for forum reps to post.

Hopefully CMBrandon becomes as cool as Fractal Josh and starts playing Insurgency with me.

[CMBrandon]

Originally Posted by roboruler

It is so good that you are trying to gain information through surveys and competitions. Your special product sales show that you are wanting to help teams, but in my opinion your posts seem to be becoming more like advertising for Cooler Master Products than anything.

I'm in marketing, we talk about the products. A lot of what I learn on here goes right back into changing the way we do things. If we didn't care what you think, we wouldn't ask. We currently sponsor 5 teams, 4 in the U.S. and 1 in Europe, everything we have given them has been free of charge.

This is our first year with robotics and I think if you ask anyone on our teams they will tell you that we are probably their most involved sponsor. We visit the schools, go to the competitions, know most of the students by name, etc. Keep in mind, we never asked a single one of them to buy anything from us. Actually, we have team 4481 Team Rembrandts at our Computex booth in Taipei as we speak. We flew them and their robot out to showcase. We also commissioned a robot from team 599 Robodox that is in the booth as well. At the L.A. Regional we gave out close to $3000 in product, free. Do we sell stuff to the robotics teams, yes, but we invest about 20x that amount back into the programs.

[dirtbikerxz]

Originally Posted by CMBrandon

Actually, we have team 4481 Team Rembrandts at our Computex booth in Taipei as we speak.

Ya, when I saw the bot I was like WOAH, FRC is everywhere, wow . Oh the parachuting vr simulator is really cool BTW.