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Unread 04-04-2011, 20:04
Andrew Lawrence
 
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Re: A plead to FIRST, anyone else agree?

I completely agree with #3! Though this year's game wasn't bad, Breakaway was my favorite! Not only is it a fun game to watch, but it was more organized, easier to observe, and most importantly, relatable to people not in the competition! When we played Breakaway, the FIRST thing that we saw, and liked, were the bumps separating the field into three separate areas. It was a lot easier to see your robot, and your opponent's robot, since most of the time there were just 2 or 3 robots per section. This year, we'd waste whole seconds (A long time in an FRC match), figuring out where our robot was in the huge heap of robots from both alliances. Also, Breakaway was robot soccer! Tell me one person in the world who doesn't know what soccer is! From the spectator's point of view, as soon as you saw the field, and the way the robots played, you knew it was robot soccer! There were soccer balls, goals, and if you looked at the right time, robots playing defense! It was easy to understand, so naturally anybody non-robotics related understood, and liked the game! This year, everyone I brought to watch had no idea what was going on! They didn't know what the game was about, they had no idea where our robot was in the moshpit of madness, and were totally confused about the way the game was played, the scoring, and the penalties. Just a note to FIRST (If you're reading this), while all of your games are exciting and innovating for the people playing in them, you have to remember the spectators who know nothing about what we are doing.
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