Pre-Ship Scrimmage

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

btw: in terms of fund raising, the return on investment of a scrimmage is not worth it. Its a lot of effort and I doubt teams would want to pay much for practicing there.

I agree, if you are expecting to make money out of a pre-ship, you will probably be disappointed. On the other hand it can be a great service to the FIRST community in your area. That is why SCRRF does ours every year, service, not funds. Though we do charge something to help pay for the field and game pieces and other expenses.

When you have 20 or so teams in various stages of robot completion, teams that are struggling can get help from others who aren't. We don't have a formalized match schedule. When teams are ready they get in line. It is rarely more than a couple of matches before they can get on the field. Teams that are ready to play, get lots of time and those that aren't, take what they think they can afford away from building. In our area the pit area at the scrimmage is actually a better work area than many teams have at their home base.

It will also give insight into just what FIRST does, 40+ times a year. Nothing like running your own competition to learn to appreciate the "real" competitions.