[EricH]

Originally Posted by tilky

what was wrong with it?

4 robots, and the only thing they were running against was the clock. The sooner you E-stopped all the robots, the more points you got. But there was no contact. No battles for position. No races to score one last game piece before time rand out. Just a race to get 2 goals on a balanced bridge, not terribly unlike this year's, and hopefully one of those goals had a load of small balls in it. Great way to take a nap if you didn't have a good robot.

It wasn't a competition. FIRST has not done anything like that since, and probably never will. A vocal majority said "We don't want that again." (A less-vocal minority was in favor--but finding them may be difficult these days.)

The bridge part has returned, yes--the center bridge in this year's game--but it's optional. There have been occasional 6v0 matches, notably in Breakaway, but by and large, we want to win a match, win an event where we actually play against someone, that sort of thing.