IGVC Invitational

[JackN]

Originally Posted by Chief Pride

The whole reason of this competition was to "inter-mingle" I did my part, as well as a few on my team, or well, at least we tried to. I didn't see one college team member come to the FRC pits, to even look around.

One member of the team from U of T-Austin who was also a mentor on team 2158, whose name I never caught, came and talked to 494 and 70 about their robots, I am sure he talked to other teams as well.

The idea of having a competition like IGVC and mixing it with a FIRST event seems risky. The two competions are on opposite ends of the energy scale. The IGVC is designed to be a mental and technical challenge while FRC is designed to be a spectator sport.

I really enjoyed the IGVC competition. This game was a blast 2 v 2 and I would be interested to see this format expanded. Inviting the top 20 teams and having them go at the game made all the matches very competitive. I would love to see FiM return to the even next year since I bet most of the problems can be worked out by the smart people involved with TARDEC and FiM.