[ColleenShaver]

I gotta go with Jon on this one... it was the boring-est game I've ever participated in.

I've been on stage for all 6years of my FIRST time, and I've got to vote that it was doubtfully any more exciting from there than it was from the stands.

And I think on-the-fly driving and on-the-fly strategizing are two different things.. yeah, someone's not holding up their part of the strategy and you have to step in and assist... it's a good thing and was about the only on-the-fly in this year's game..

But in past years, and as we'll see at BattleCry.. there will truly be on-the-fly reactions to what the other team is doing and changing of strategy. I go into a match intending on grabbing on goal and balancing but shoot! the other alliance decides to go into the match and gain control of both ramps.. man.. we gotta think fast, change of plans to maximize points.. it's about capitalizing on what the opposing alliance DIDN'T think of before or doesn't expect from you.. it's about seeing the situation you're in and realizing, crap, we're gonna lose if we don't do something different! suddenly you're defending instead of grabbing a big ball.. balancing a bot instead of filling goals.. etc etc etc.. less "shoot, team XXX dropped the ball, let me put on the one i grabbed juts in case they did".. that's nothing.. that's second nature..

2v2 is a great thing, I think, that FIRST should go back to without a doubt. Cause honestly.. it's a much more exciting game and a much better way to make and keep friends and teams as 'off-stage alliances' and such..