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Originally Posted by Alex2614
I saw that right before I posted, actually. Yes that was a very cool design and I can't wait to see it live in action.
So the top 25 will be fun to watch, as usual. But I prefer games in which the whole season was entertaining, and also very easy to explain to our non-FIRST spectators.
Things I hated most about Lunacy was the over-emphasized human players, the incredibly complex scoring to explain, and the themed game concept. This game has all of that going for it PLUS no defense/interaction, and no wins/losses. Not even close to being like a sport.
Again, hope I'm proven wrong admittedly I have before). But if the matches I see in two weeks are like the ones I watched today, I will be falling asleep.
The game is just not for me. I prefer the edge-of-your-seat intensity of some previous games. Others may not enjoy that as much. We'll see.
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I generally agree with everything you said. I joined FRC in 2013 and my first FIRST experiance was in 2012. I have been incredibly lucky in the sense that the last 3 games have been amongst the best 3 games IMO. I more or less posted that because I was simply that blown away by 148.
While I'm awake at 2:30 AM I don't see why I can't also recap my experience at the Centurion-KnightKrawler week 0 event:
-The field is way smaller than I anticipated (not actually but the totes and massive robots do a pretty good job of cluttering what little area we started with)
- I misread the game in a sense that I assumed most teams would design their robots to play nice with the chute door, yes, chute door. At the event I attended it seemed as though the opposite was true. Most teams were built for the landfill and seemed to have difficulty with what I thought was the easier way to acquire totes.
- The difference between active mechanisms and passive mechanisms for acquiring totes is night and day. Active mechanisms just worked so much more efficiently
- Robots seemed to be a lot more "together" than they were at the same time last year. I don't know if that's a result of an easier challenge or some other factor that I don't currently have the mental capacity to think about.
- Big robots (they are almost all big) need to be careful in their maneuvers. Driver practice is always important, but I think it's integral to the success of a team this year, more so than usual.
Other points that have already been covered: Coopertition is massive, liter is unexpectedly valuable (at least unexpected for me) etc.