FIRST is missing out

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Posted by Matt Leese at 04/26/2001 12:34 PM EST


College Student on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.


In Reply to: Re: FIRST tries. But Is it enough and do Battle Bots =FIRST
Posted by Joe on 04/26/2001 11:37 AM EST:



We constantly seem to be saying that we need to do
this and this to appeal to the general public and the
media. And the question that I keep thinking of is,
why? Why do we need to appeal to the media? We're
here to do our competition. Not one that's hand
tailored for the media. Not one that will appeal to
the general publics desire for violence. There's a
reason that we're not Battlebots. We don't want to
be! FIRST has done fine without very much media
attention for the past ten years. And I have a
feeling that we'll do fine without much media
attention for the next ten. I understand that media
attention is good but I don't think that we should
change anything to pander to the media (this includes
putting media platforms at the main stage blocking
everyone else's view, but that's another rant). We
don't need to change the game so that the media will
be more interested. We don't need to make the game
less complicated for them. We are what we are and
changing for the media will destroy who we are.

Matt who feels that spending time pandering to the
media is wasted