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Originally Posted by SuburBot

This isn't a prediction for future games. It is a recommendation to the GDC (Game Design Committee) that future games be more based on mainstream sports.

Bill Miller mentioned here (http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2010...on-update.html) a survey for the favorite FRC games of all time and posted the results here (http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2011...counting.html).

This is the danger with surveys like this... They are doomed from the start, and are not a true reflection. Look at your rookie year and the majority of rookie years you find on CD they are post 2007 and 2008.

FIRST has a high turn over and this survey is a blatant representation of this. The odds that the best 5 games FIRST produced just happened to be last 5 games is next to none.

Actually breakaway was a miserable game to watch from a spectators perspective. I went to one competition just to watch, with no emotional attachment to any of the robots, and I got bored very fast.

A more appropriate measure of a game would be to post a rating system where teams can vote at the end of each season, this way the turnover wouldn't have this effect on "stats".

I do like sport like games, don't get me wrong. 2004 was awesome for this because it was the first year of the human player, and the human player was actually a player. They had to shoot balls into a goal similar to basketball. In my eyes FIRST has since abandoned the human role in the game, minimizing the role of physical skill in the games.

People naturally arent emotionally connected to robots, unless the built them of course. Having true human players allowed non STEM spectators to have an emotional connection to the game, thus making them for entertaining to watch.