Robot Showcase - Team Promotion

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Posted by Splash.

Student on team #53, Team Inferno, from Eleanor Roosevelt High School and NASA GSFC.

Posted on 7/22/2000 8:15 AM MST



How would you like it if FIRST ran a series of competitions during the lunch break and after competition on Friday at regionals to display your robots. Events such as tug-of-war, obstacle course, robot race, scoring challenge, etc.

Teams have always made an issue of no one being able to see their skilled robot. With these events during the lunch break when most of the people on every team are sitting in the stands, there would be no room to complain. If a team had a robot as fast at they say, we would be able to see it. If it was the strongest robot, it would have a title. Giving out awards for features like this would help teams promote themselves at nationals. Being able to say, 'we've got the fastest robot in michigan' says a lot. To be sure not to exclude the all-around teams that can do everything well, but not good enough to win the events, there could be an event where teams would have to do a multitude of challenges (time trial, scoring, and some sort of defense thing maybe).

I think teams would enter their robots despite the possibility of something going wrong with the robot. The opportunity to be noticed far outweighs the possibility of damage. And even if something did, they would have time to fix it for the finals. I think the higher profile teams that don't need to be noticed anymore, would probably enter for the fun of it. Perhaps at Nationals there could be a competition between all of the regional winners. I'm not sure what attendace would be like though.

Who wants in?