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

[Billfred]

Dude, we've really got to get some off-seasons down South.

I mean, the nearest ones to our team are some five or eight or more hours by car away. I've got some doubts as to our team's ability to stand that for a regional, much less an off-season.

C'mon, someone here's gotta want to have Revenge of Palmetto. (yeah, the name stinks. it's all I could think of.)

[dez250]

I personally think that in some areas there are alot, take the north east for an exmple. There are like 15 or more through out the off season here, while in California theres like 3. But even though the many up here are used well for training and to have fun at, i think personally it may be too many. This is because there are truely not as many people that are trained that can make all of them to have them be top class. So while a few get an amazing crew, BTB, BC5, Brunswick Eruption and some others, there are still others that dont get a well trained staff and suffer because of it. I think some groups that have multiple in the same local area, should think sometimes about quality instead of quanity...

[Justin]

It is interesting up here in New England. As I first think about it I think there are a ton of offseason comps. Then I think about something that has always bothered me, July. Most of the comps up here are in Jun and August/ September/October. It seems that there are never any comps in New England Proper in July. If there is one PM me and I'll stand corrected ;-) Given that the comps seem to be bunched together and there is a lull in the July I don't think there are to many. It is tough when they are bunched together though. I think Mayhem suffered a little in terms of attendence being so close to BattleCry. For what its worth I think BattleCry is a great comp but perhaps it is getting a little to big? 40 Teams?? 2 days?? They're running a regional which may or may not be a bad thing.

Justin

[Lisa Perez]

Michigan has the Sweet Repeat, and now, the Albion competition. Also, Kettering, but I haven't heard anything about it yet.

And I don't know if you'd consider OCCRA to be an off-season competition grouping, because we don't use the same robots and the game is different. Most consider it a season in itself. Nonetheless, it keeps us busy during the FIRST off-season.

Anyways, getting back to the question, I think that we have a good, happy amount of competitions here. Because of the number of teams that participate in FIRST in Michigan, participation in the off-season events as well is pretty high.

[tiffany34990]

well for florida-- we do have stuff going on-- not a lot-- but i know slowly we're getting more cause many teams down here want to do stuff--not as big as the northeastern sector--or as big as iri


enjoy all the summer fun and all the off season competitions

[Berserker]

there is no such thing as too many offseason competitions