"The 24" - Off-season Idea

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Originally Posted by Alex2614

Some of us here at MARS have an idea that keeps floating back up to discussion every year, but never gets anywhere.

"The 24!"

What does everybody think of having a 24-straight-hour survival-of-the-fittest off-season event? It would start sometime on a Friday or Saturday evening, run through the night, and have the elims sometime the next day. Teams would need to do some serious strategizing, such as having multiple drive teams to exchange throughout the event, and figure out all of the logistics of managing their personnel and keeping them rested. I mean, we all do late nights at robotics, don't we? I'm a non-engineering mentor, and I was even there with my students multiple times at 2:00am, and even at 4:00am one night this season. So, why not do this at competition? We never sleep at competitions, either (don't lie to yourself). So why not make it real? We could even try to get Mountain Dew or RedBull or someone of the like to sponsor the event.

So, what do you think? Good idea/bad? Would you be interested in participating?

I looked at it and originally thought it was a crazy idea... then I looked at it again and it still sounds like a crazy idea.

But crazy ideas tend to produce some excellent results. I think this is an excellent idea, although I'd imagine it'd be hard to get this organized and sponsored without it being an official FRC event.

Other than that, sounds pretty awesome, competitive and fun!