Battlebots Cancelled!!!

[rbayer]

I, too, am sick of hearing people attack BB. Over the summer, a group of friends and I (mostly me) completely designed a Battle Bot. I can honestly say it was far more educational than the FIRST setup because I did everything. In FIRST, engineers do a lot of work or at least tell us what to do. Through my experience with BB, I can now make technical drawings of every part necessary to build a robot and better understand all the details that go into design. Furthermore, BB is far more accessible financially than FIRST is or ever will be (the entrance fee is only $300 and parts aren't that expensive). Now that BB 6.0 has been cancelled (or at least postponed), I have nothing to do with my 80+ drawings of Aluminum parts.

Even after all that, I still believe FIRST is an excellent program. I won't say its better than BB, nor will I say BB is better than FIRST; they are different programs with different target builders and are not even comparable.