The minibots should, in the spirit of FIRST, be worth the same number of points.
This year is the first game (that I'm familiar with) where you can completely achieve the end game task to the best of your abilities and LOSE at it. What happened to "there are no losers in FIRST'', GDC.
I was hoping to see some interestingly engineered minibots that climb up the pole in a unique and INNOVATIVE way. When it's a race, everybody does the same thing, drag cars.
I wanted to see some of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuFla...eature=related
or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSI7F...eature=related
But we just got hundreds and hundreds of little drag cars.
I was just pretty disappointed by how the minibots turned out. They were weighted too heavily and took away from the rest of the game.
You shouldn't be able to lose the finale in my opinion.