[Alyssa]

This game has been great skills wise. I've seen some teams really excel, and some teams really have to explore new types of boundaries, thinking outside the box. Technically, this is a really cool game for engineering purposes. However, like I've said before, this game is really like playing competitive solitaire. For the past few years, between things like GameSense and the competitive and quick gameplay, I thought FIRST was going for an exciting, crowd enticing type of game, relaying it to more of a sport-atmosphere. However, they are completely cutting that aspect of gameplay out this year.

Honestly, saying "I helped build a robot that competes with and against other robots in competition, and we lunch 2-foot-big yoga balls through goals 10 feet of the ground!" is a lot easier to say and makes being a geek much more okay than saying "I helped build a robot that stacks boxes, and then puts a trash can up on top."