IFI vs FTC? Both offering competitions for next year!

[Daviddavid]

[quote=Lil' Lavery;722818]The way I see it is we have a known with Vex's hardware, and (for most of us) and unknown with their competition.
We have an unknown with FTC's hardware, but a known with their competition.
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Two different people I talked to today about all this at the Davis event said to me that it's cool they don't have to worry about Vex being able to run great events. I said I it's one thing to expect a good program but there's really no way to know until we see how the World event in May goes. But they said - you don't know the people at IFI, they got people who have been running these events for years and they know how to do it as good or better than anyone. So at least for them, they feel totally confident that the new Vex program has a great platform and will have a great program with good competitions.
I'm assuming this is true, at least I hope it is, and it does sound like another reason to be excited or hopeful about the new Vex competitions. I kind of thought it might take them a year or two to learn how to run events like I was at today, but it sounds like they already have lots of experience doing it. I thought that was interesting, but maybe I'm reading to much into it.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Daviddavid

Two different people I talked to today about all this at the Davis event said to me that it's cool they don't have to worry about Vex being able to run great events. I said I it's one thing to expect a good program but there's really no way to know until we see how the World event in May goes. But they said - you don't know the people at IFI, they got people who have been running these events for years and they know how to do it as good or better than anyone. So at least for them, they feel totally confident that the new Vex program has a great platform and will have a great program with good competitions.
I'm assuming this is true, at least I hope it is, and it does sound like another reason to be excited or hopeful about the new Vex competitions. I kind of thought it might take them a year or two to learn how to run events like I was at today, but it sounds like they already have lots of experience doing it. I thought that was interesting, but maybe I'm reading to much into it.

By no means am I saying IFI will do a poor job running events. In fact, I'd tend to lean towards the side that they would do an awesome job. They do have two people with FRC GDC experience within their ranks (Tony Norman and Jason Morella), and a number of others with experience in running competitions, teams, and other events. But the bottom line is that we haven't really seen their event(s) yet, and we don't know how the whole system will be set up next year. Until we see some more information, I'm still chucking that up there as a question mark, although I'm very hopeful and confident that it will turn out well.