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Re: Alternative endgame (from BB)
I love the idea of community input on the game at kickoff. For a few years now, I've been throwing out the idea of a team-customizable or team-supplied element of the playing field, to mirror the real-world part of engineering in which engineers can alter their challenge to some extent, by selecting a safer landing site on mars, adding a temporary tab to a product to aid in manufacturing, and so on. The idea of a community vote on an element of the game, while not as personalized as my proposal, captures this spirit.
I would not have been a fan, however, of the proposed alternate end game. It would have removed the purest challenge in efficiency and optimization that FIRST has ever given us, and added a greater element of luck to the endgame.
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Last edited by Joe G. : 28-04-2011 at 21:16.
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