Thread: This year's "game" is a job, not a game
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Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game
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Originally Posted by jman4747 View Post
FRC matches never look "cool" to outsiders at lower and medium levels of play and usually not even at high levels. That aspect is no different than years past. This challenge is great and the competition is as good as its ever been.
I have to disagree, several games have looked cool and were fun to watch (2012 for example). In college, most of my friends really didn't care about engineering but LOVED watching matches with great defense, a solid objective, and an exciting end game. I showed some footage of this year's competition to a few people at work who were interested in FIRST and they declared it "boring" and "confusing". One even commented that watching our fork lift driver move pieces of basketball court was more interesting than watching robots try to stack boxes. They then turned it off. I hate saying it but at the end of the day this is a boring game UNLESS you are on a team, in which case I guess it could be fun because it's your robot out there?
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