Offseasons as your Regular Season?

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

FRC isn't about having fun. It isn't about the robots. If you ignore the six-week build time restriction, if you dismiss the stress of official regional competition events, if you set aside the need to set priorities between robotics and study...then you lose a significant amount of what this is about.

If you go around the program and only attend offseason events, you don't just give up the opportunity to win official FIRST robot trophies and banners. You remove yourself from contention for the big award. You avoid full exposure to the core reason for FIRST's existence. You essentially announce that you care mostly about having fun.

Isn't FIRST about giving the students the experience of working with professional engineers to overcome a challenge and ultimately inspiring them to pursuit technical careers?
Sure, you may not have the same six week time crunch of normal FRC competition, but you still have to have a robot done for competition.
As I see it, as long as you're inspiring, you know what its about.