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Originally Posted by bharrison6
I'm not entirely sure I agree with this, however I can agree that as a mentor and educator trying to grow a program its hard to get students excited about a game like this as opposed to a game like last year. It's exciting to see robots run into each other at full speed and have pushing matches. At the same time this kind of game has more roots in actual robotics used in industry. I think the mechanics used in this kind of game. (Pick, Stack and place) could be introduced in a more exciting way, rather than a recycling themed game.
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Exactly. Looking back at my post, I realized it sounded a lot more argumentative than I meant, my bad o.O let me try and say it a different way: I am the CO of the MCJROTC program at my school, and we've got a bunch of lugheads running around here doing push-ups wherever they can. Over the past four year's I've actually managed to get two of them to join the team and a bunch to come to the competitions, because it looks awesome. That's the whole idea of FIRST, right? Don't just have the geeks and the nerds, but the jockeys and everyone enjoy it and get excited. How am I going to convince those freshman and sophomore that they should come to this competition? In my opinion, that's been a major part of FRC that they've done absolutely beautifully these last couple years. I'm simply frustrated that at least on the spectator aspect of this game for people that haven't already done FRC, it is severely lacking.