East Coast, West Coast, and Midwest FIRST

[Dan Richardson]

Originally posted by Replic
Anyone who visits the Rutgers Regional, as my advisor said, will quickly change their mind about the central East of FIRST. We're quite possibly the friendliest people you shall ever meet, and we'll be sure to make everyone feel welcome. For example, a Brazillian team that came to our regional this year- Not only did we help them out when they needed it, but some of our members spent a lunchbreak or two playing soccer with them just to make them feel at home! Some of our members even spent a few nights after the regional hanging out with them.

Yeah it did really seem like that, infact our team was kinda jealous we could not attend it. UCF is a great regional but Rutgers seemed generally just like a lot of fun

I know here in south east we are pretty competetive yet nice competetive. Even tho we had the infamous collusion-between-teams regional this year.

When you really start to look at the way things are regionals around the nation seem to in some way reflect the culture of the teams. Nationals is just one big cultural experience ( more and more with the teams from diff. countries )

Thats what makes FIRST so unique how culture and the time is reflected through our bots, but at the same time we all get along ( for the most part ) with no problem. People who would never had been brought together or met each other if it wasn't for FIRST. FIRST teaches many life lessons but I believe the most important is we are all different. Thats whats so great about FIRST it can bring peopel from literally everywhere to build a robot and Play a game. It sounds simple but all involved with first for a while knows its soo much more than that.

Its good to realize that some teams are more competitive than others, some are more Laid back than others. All are needed to have the greatest FIRST experience, if it was always about winning people would have a harder time having fun, if it was always about having a good time there would be no competition.