QotW [04-20-03]: Post-season competitions.

[Ken Leung]

We setup Cal Game at September ever year for the following reasons:

Teams can introduce new members to the competition and let them see what it's like.
Teams can bring potential sponsors to Cal Game and let them have a preview of the competition, and turn into real sponsors.
Teams can bring engineers, parents, adults, to Cal Game and inspire them to help with the team.
Teams can train the new season leaders to take on the responsibility of taking care of the team at an event.

Then teams decide to come to Cal game just to have fun, meet people again, get another chance to shoot for the champion title, and let their robot play the side events and see how well they can do in those.

There are so many reasons why post season competitions are important to teams. These are only a few of them.

For me, it is a chance to experience what FIRST goes through in managing a event for high school teams. Lots of stress and sleepless nights to make sure it runs ok, but it's all worth the work .


Also, I want to say how proud I am of M and the first Question of the week! The question is meaningful and there's lots of great answers! It's going to be fun answering questions instead of coming up with them from now on. Yay!

[Matt Leese]

Originally posted by srawls
Also, I even met the MC for the Curie field on our plane ride to Houston, and after talking for a bit, he said "did you by chance go to the Maryland State Fair?"

I think you're referring to another field Steve (not you, the MC) was supposed to be MC on Curie but he ended up doing another field. He's the perennial (alright, two years but good enough) other ref at the Maryland State Fair Competition (besides myself).

Matt