Offseasons as your Regular Season?

[Corey Balint]

I was just thinking about the large amount of off-season events in the Mid-Atlantic/New England area and came to think, “Why don’t some teams just save the money and attend all of these events rather than attending a regional?” They are shorter, don’t require students to miss school, and are fun and far less stressful.

I know the one major thing teams are going to say is that you get all the kit parts every year when the new game starts. But if you just reuse the parts year to year, it should be just as cheap. While you won’t get the big fancy trophies or banners from an official event, you still get the experience and possible trophies from the off-seasons.

Quick List of Mid-Atl/N.E.events this year/last year:
Beantown Blitz-Annual
Battlecry-Annual
Wolcott-New 08
Mayhem-Annual
PARC-Annual
Monty-Annual
DoD-Annual
BE-Annual
Ramp Riot-Annual
BoB-Annual
Pascack-New 08
AA-New 08
River Rage-Annual
Ruckus-Annual
Bash-Annual
Deer Park-New 07

Just say as an average, they are $300 a pop. 16 events times $300 is $4,800. That’s not that bad if you ask me. Cheaper than one regional. Then you could treat IRI as your championship event (To me its just as hard to win here, some may say more some will says less…You could argue either side and have enough to defend your points easily) and that gets you just over $5,000 on the year.

There definitely would be a feel of something missing from the season, but you have time to perfect your robot and be much more creative. You also could just design a robot that is exactly like 1114 (or the Championship winner/Most dominant team). That just wouldn’t be as fun though…well kind of.

I just wanted to see if anyone else has thought about this at all or if anyone even sees this as a viable option. I’m not suggesting to anyone do it, but it just seems a bit cheaper and you get more competitions in. Also, not having 6 week schedule does hamper the fun a bit. Just wouldn’t be as much of a rush for people as normal.



Sorry if this is just all messed up thought wise. I'm never one to lay things out very well at first.