Question of the Week!!! (6/14/04)

[Alex Pelan]

We have gone to WPI every year since it began except for last year, due to a robot problem. In addition to that, we have gone to River Rage once or twice, but those are the extent of our offseason activities. The problem with having so many is that many teams do not have the kind of funding necessary to go to competitions every weekend. Add that to the bureaucracy necessary to go on field trips (WPI is the day after graduation this year, but we still need it to be an actual field trip with forms and whatnot to bring the robot. One of the novelties of FIRST events is that there are not too many, which helps make each individual event special. If there are too many events around, then the events all get blurred in your mind and you do not get the full experience. In addition to all these problems, there is the issue with those teams which are holding offseason events. If there are too many in the area, then those that are held, for many of the above reasons will not get enough attendence. As for CT, however, I do not feel that we have been oversaturated. Only a few major offseasons would be considered reachable for us, including WPI, Beantown Blitz, and Bash at the Beach.