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Game play. With 6 robots on the field and with the help with programing, people that are not involved with FIRST might come to watch the matches and not get board of watching and get involved in this fine org.

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On your toes thinking required. :D


Wetzel

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The idea of tic tac toe is amazing because of the many different ways to score, and to counteract the other alliance's points. I think strategy will play a very important role this year more so than years in the past.

I liked the way the format of the kickoff was with 1 speech, and then a clue towards the game. I also think the game was explained a lot better this year than years in the past. So far, i think first is doing a very good job this year. :)

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The shape of the new field element, tetras. When I first saw it, I was thinking, "uuuhhh... robot... can't.... grab.... anything...." and I seriously thought that it would be impossible to manipulate without being extremely inaccurate.. but now I see that there are actually a few different ways to reliably get them from place to place.

Balls and boxes were fairly simple... tetras will be a bit more complex. I like.

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Well, it has been a week now, I have seen a signficant improvement over the week in collective attitude and general positive spirit.

Thank you for that.

I hope that the entire ChiefDelphi.com community will take it on themselves to stay positive when they can and to be contructive when they see room for improvement.

With that I am going to CLOSE this thread. Feel free to start a new thread about a positive idea when the mood strikes you.

BUT... ...before I do, I want to put one more "What FIRST did RIGHT" post.

THIS TABLE:



It is from THIS THREAD

More importantly, IT WAS FROM FIRST: See page 7 of the "Guidelines" document

(thanks to Dave Lavery for pointing out a table of information that I had asked someone to generate for me was actually in the manual already)

Anyway, while there is some confusion about this or that bit of data in the chart, it is generally right and extremely useful.

WELL DONE FIRST!

Joe J.