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What's the big idea?
I like the new system, because I think FIRST should encourage us to win, not by crushing the opposing alliance, but by maximizing the aggregate scoring.
Also, I never liked the idea that there should be one way to play the game in qualifying and another in the elimination matches. That idea flew in the face of what FIRST is really trying to accomplish, basically by saying that raising the overall level of the competition is fine for a while, but cutthroat is the way to go when things get serious.
The distinction between the FIRST ideal and raw self-interest is what separates FIRST from BattleBots.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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