QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! [07-01-01]

[Carolyn Duncan]

Well, where's page 3? Just joking. Do ya get it now Mike?
C~ya,
Carolyn

[mike o'leary]

close enough...seems sort of wordy to me though

oh well, thats just me, and i never really ever got into soccer

[Carolyn Duncan]

Soccer really is a great sport imho. It's too bad some people don't really like it. Oh, well. Thus is life.
C~ya,
Carolyn who couldn't imagine life without soccer.

[EddieMcD]

Soccer is good, but lets not forget that this post is about improvments for next year. And The High Priest agrees about one thing: simple scoring. Probably the most complicated sport (scoring wise) is football. You have 3 basic ways of scoring (not counting conversions, which are prettymuch the same anyway). When's the last time we've had a FIRST game that simple? Probably not since 1996.

[David Kelly]

thread getting stale, eventhough i sorta started the staleness

[EddieMcD]

And now your unstaleing (if that's a word) the staleness by telling us to stop making the thread stale.

-Ed "10 bucks says that made absolutely no sense" McDonnell

[David Kelly]

i guess so

[Carolyn Duncan]

Many things have gotten stale lately. I think soccre came up because I suggested that we play an already established sport, like soccer. Dean has mentioned turning FIRST into robot olympics, why not play olympic sports. Most people will be able tounderstand the rules and scoring or be able to find people outside of FIRST to explain.
C~ya,
Carolyn

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Carolyn Duncan
Many things have gotten stale lately. I think soccre came up because I suggested that we play an already established sport, like soccer. Dean has mentioned turning FIRST into robot olympics, why not play olympic sports. Most people will be able tounderstand the rules and scoring or be able to find people outside of FIRST to explain.
C~ya,
Carolyn

Exactly, I think the easiest way for FIRST to appeal to audiences is to have a game that is easy to follow and understand. people the like things to be complicated.

[EddieMcD]

Hmm... could football go as a FIRST game? Think about it. Take teams of 5, and use regular football strategy to play. Imagine the field goal kicker.

-Ed "ok, he'll stop ranting now" McDonnell

[Carolyn Duncan]

That would be really tough for the first time. You'd have to have great accuracy throwing, recieving, and kicking. At least with soccer you can chase a ball down and the goal is on the ground, don't have to figure out lifting a kick. The other sport that might be easy is rugby... even that would be tough though.
C~ya,
Carolyn