**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Pilot Rookie Competition

[Rosiebotboss]

Originally Posted by gail

While just for rookies this year, this low cost event is the first step to develop an inexpensive model that can be held in local high schools anywhere as a qualifying district event. Hopefully this will prove to be a sustainable, feasible alternative as FIRST continues to grow.

A secondary goal was to give rookies, who are traditionally not as well funded as veteran teams, a second round of play for a nominal price. Providing them with an opportunity to get comfortable in the competition setting and to make improvements to their robot before they play their big event, should help ensure a successful rookie season.

This sounds exactly why MI is not having a FTC event. I thought that was why FTC was created, to give high schools a low cost alternative to FRC, a sort of "farm system" if you will......interesting.