[dubiousSwain]

From the perspective of a scouter/mascot:

First of all, I like scouting this game. Our paradigm is "follow the ball", and we have two scouters per alliance. Previous games have been hard too scout due to too many game pieces, but that is probably because our team has very little man power available to be applied to scouting. The game is fun to watch and exciting, if you've read the rules (which I have many times).

As a strategist, I LOVE this game. There is a lot of depth to the field, and several different "classes" of robots, at least in MAR. In order to do well, everyone has to work together, and teams have to know their niche. It makes me happy when a strategy is well executed, even if it isn't the one I came up with. It frustrates me to no end when one robot on our alliance decides to go "lone wolf" and doesn't work as a team.

Basically, it boils down to this. In qualifications, most robots are out for themselves and for rank, so they are more likely to abandon strategies. This is when we get train-wreck matches that look like pee-wee soccer.
In eliminations, its the most intense game I've ever been a part of. (I joined FIRST in the offseason of logomotion)