[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Kevin Ray

I agree completely with all of your other points but disagree with this one point. (A) Many if not most of the major foul points have been accrued by human players, thus nullifying thousands of man hours which an entire team has devoted to the construction of the robot, not to mention the strategic planning of the game play.
(B) At the two regionals we've attended I (along with hundreds of others I'm sure) thought I'd pop a blood vessel in my head from screaming for the human player (on our alliance) to "JUST INBOUND THE BALL!!!". There were MANY times when a human player ambled over to input the ball or held on to it until the absolute perfect positioning of the receiving robot. In one of our matches he remained behind the driver station getting caught up in the action on the other side of the field while we were waiting for the inbound. --WAY TOO MUCH input/game control on the human player this year. Hopefully this never happens again. A single human player has adversely affected many dozens of match outcomes this year--and that translates into not just affecting his team, good or bad, but the entire 6 teams on the field and, ultimately the overall standings of all teams in the competition.

Thats not the games fault though. Train your human players better and get on other teams' human players to run and inbound quickly. These are things that can be fixed, they are not faults with the game (however I do agree with your point about how many slow/incompetent human players there are this year).