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Originally posted by Patrick Wang
Remember that the field that we play in is not completely enclosed, and there are people standing to the sides.
Remember that the Field is carpetted, can you imagine the damage that large robot would do to anything else?
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But is there any reason we have to play in an unenclosed field? I don't see any, other than possibly making the HP aspect a bit more difficult to implement.
We don't need carpet, there's no reason to stick with that, the metal grating and HDPE were excellent surfaces to play on. I know at DotD there was some other kind of flooring that held up extremely well and had great traction.
While FIRST tried to get a more spectator friendly game, Joe Johnson is right, they failed. I still can't explain the game very quickly, and you can't just watch it and instantly understand. BattleBots is like that, that's the reason they are on TV and we are not. You can turn BattleBots on and you have instant action and understanding. I know FIRST doesn't and shouldn't go to strictly fighting, but we have to come up with something, so no more complaining, that doesn't solve anything, we are the smartest group of people on the face of the planet, I know we can come up with something.
Good things from this year's competition:
Multiple and interesting surfaces, playing field, and scoring elements.
Game with lots of action; i.e. shoving, flipping, etc.
Something that looks cool when you see it, i.e. a KotH taking the ramp, a robot making a giant stack. That kind of stuff pulls you in, we need more of that.
Bad Things:
Dead Time, between matches, often at points in the match where people settle into places, i.e. someones at the top, 1 robot in each zone, and someone is flipped over. You need conflict.
Game too hard to understand, I think this is obvious, it's easier to explain than before but not easy enough.
I see lots of solutions:
Enclosed Field
Something other than carpet (can you say water?
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Different shape field, why not, something brand new, how bout a field shaped like pi?
And somehow, we have to get on TV, on some larger station, not the NASA channel.
Less Complaining! More Solutions!