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Unread 31-03-2003, 13:50
Jnadke Jnadke is offline
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*Hops on the soapbox*

I don't think teams are posting their problems here as much as to complain, but to morely "test the waters." By complaining about them complaining, you are condoning what they are complaining about. You are saying "We don't care what the other team did to you, just do it to them". Watch it, because I'm sure teams will catch on and do it to you too.

In case you haven't noticed, the game has changed significantly this year. It is tons different that any previous year. We have shoving, hitting, tipping, basically BattleBots without some of the destruction. I posted many of my thoughts to see how everyone else feels about how the game is going.

This year's game will without a doubt affect next year's game. It will go downhill from here. Many of the "intermediate veteran" teams will see that it is okay to beat another robot into the ground. Next year depending on the game we will probabaly see many more wedge designs. Who knows, I'm sure many teams will modify their robots in time for nationals to include a wedge design. It will become a game of whoever has the lowest ground clearance wins.

It is imperative that we prevent it, before teams begin to think this type of behavior is okay. FIRST is about INNOVATION. 50 different wedge designs is NOT innovation.

*Hops off the soapbox* I'm off to class, I'll extend on my thoughts later.
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