When you talk about FRC how many people ask about battle bots?

[Wildcat]

every person that ive discussed robotics with (except 1) has asked "do you get to kill the other robots"...it gets real annoying to have to explain FIRST in detail so many times

[RoseJ]

Most of the time when I explain FIRST and FRC to people, they ask if it is like battle bots. Some of them loose interest in FRC after I tell them that it is not like battle bots.

[BJC]

Well, maby next year that will be the game.

If it is we are making one giant steel cirular-saw blade with a crab drive.

Anyway, that way when people asked that, you could say "yes, actully its exactly like that."

I can't even imagine how many people would suddenly join robotics teams. That would certainly be one way to get people interested in FIRST .

[robself705]

Originally Posted by BJC

Well, maby next year that will be the game.

If it is we are making one giant steel cirular-saw blade with a crab drive.

Anyway, that way when people asked that, you could say "yes, actully its exactly like that."

I can't even imagine how many people would suddenly join robotics teams. That would certainly be one way to get people interested in FIRST .

haha, this is a very cunning idea.

[kjolana1124]

I think next time I'm asked I'll respond with something like this:

"Well, let's look at evolution. First cavemen hit each other with clubs, and now we're building technology. In Battlebots, we're cavemen. In FIRST, we managed to go through 2000 years of history into the new age of using technology to help others."

[sashboy226]

I usually say "No, but it'd be cool if we did that at the end of our season." Then they ask me what we do during our season. Reverse psychology always works on the simple-minded.

[BJC]

Originally Posted by sashboy226

I usually say "No, but it'd be cool if we did that at the end of our season." Then they ask me what we do during our season. Reverse psychology always works on the simple-minded.

We do do that at the end of our season. I thought everybody did .











Just kidding

[McVey]

Basically everyone asks me if they're battle bots. I return with the clear fact that FIRST is more fun.

Also look at this field from when I saw live battlebots in Texas:



BORING.

[electron]

well, a couple of the guys on my team joke that they should go start a battle bots team, so that when somebody asks "Is it like battle bots?!?", they can finally say "Yes, it is just like battle bots"

[Mushrooshi]

Although... these televised robotics events still aren't bad. Sure, the ignorance of the general public does tend to gripe us a lot, but accidentally watching Robot Wars as a small child pretty much set me on the path to robotics. Its the 'gateway drug' for robotics, if you want to make a terrible analogy. Over time, people will begin to understand FIRST and appreciate it more.

[Ed__]

Originally Posted by Mushrooshi

Although... these televised robotics events still aren't bad. Sure, the ignorance of the general public does tend to gripe us a lot, but accidentally watching Robot Wars as a small child pretty much set me on the path to robotics. Its the 'gateway drug' for robotics, if you want to make a terrible analogy. Over time, people will begin to understand FIRST and appreciate it more.

I hope so also but I don't think so as I see a decay in cultural so I think that understanding will be hard to come by

[JamesCH95]

After the first couple times I was asked this annoying question I started preemptively saying "the robots are not designed to damage each other, unlike battle bots"

[PAR_WIG1350]

Before bumpers (and even after them) some pretty violent incidents have occurred, self-destruction can be quite impressive, but I don't know of any documented cases from first, I do know, however, that in at least 2 locations on the internet that have a video of 190 and some other team fighting to defend/ attach to the bar in '04. the other team wound up pushing 190 into the stationary goal which provided the correct tipping moment too over-turn the defending robot, 190 fell forward and its hook caught the bar and, in the process of lifting itself, it ran over its immobilized opponent. It is an impressive video.

Oh, I almost forgot the 'mauling' of M.O.E. in '02, yet another impressive encounter.

[Jeffy]

As I have now competed in both, I ussualy say something like:
"No, I enjoy FIRST events much more than battlebots. It is much more like a sport."

[Racer26]

I get it all the time too, my default response is along the lines of:

"Its like battlebots in the sense that the robots are on the same approximate scale, and operate via radio control, etc. Its NOT like battlebots, in that we play a competitive game, as opposed to trying to destroy the other bots."