[Amanda M]

I think that FIRST has created a great game here. The only problem is that there are not enough people playing it.

It is a game of STRATEGY.

For goodness sakes, play with the numbers, mess around with both sides of the ramp. Don't just sit there knocking boxes out of the other team's scoring zone!

Descoring is a great strategy! Oh well if it causes the other team to lose! Put a little bit of guerilla warfare into it!

This game would be so much better if people wouldn't just but the boxes into the zones and then be done! At Phoenix, it was all a rush to KOTH. But most of the points don't come from that! All the points are in the boxes, and those points are there to manipulate.

The scoring is difficult for this reason. FIRST wants us to think about different strategies and how to win and still get a bunch of QPs or EPs. And yes, the elimination rounds are annoying, but they are there to make us think. To challenge us.

Don't you think we should rise to meet it and try to figure out ways to get past it?

Although I myself am opposed to the set up of the elimination rounds, I think that time is better spent trying to come up with more strategies.

I can't wait till nationals! It will be great to see all of the new ones out there! Good luck to you all! Hope to see you there!

-Amanda