East Coast, West Coast, and Midwest FIRST

[Kristina]

Wow, Ken L and I were just talking about this last night. Well I guess I can only comment about what I'm pretty familiar with and that's the West Coast teams. I'd say the assessment is pretty right on. There's no denying the fact that there's competitiveness but I don't think it's as aggressive from what I've heard of at other parts of the country. There's something about it over here but we usually seem really "kick-back" about everything in life, and it holds true with robotics.

California being a pretty large state with lots of teams and organizations like WRRF and SCRRF to me seems really disconnected from everyone else, which can be good and bad at times. Less drama, but sometimes boring. There's always lots of camraderie and helping other teams but that seems aparant nation wide. And of course in California you have the mini North and South rivalry which is always fun.

Sidenote: practically, not piratically. Sorry, 6 weeks of being an English major and you develop little pet peeves.