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Originally posted by Johca_Gaorl
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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.
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I think this year's game was a step in the right direction for FIRST in both of these categories.
The past 6 years, i've tried to explain this game to my dad. This was the first year he was able to understand it easily, and we were able to talk strategy. I consider my dad as our target demographic. 25-55 male. Consumer. Homeowner. This was the first game that has appealed to him. I say the games are getting better.
As far as dead time, that's just a part of competition. For every Duke vs North Carolina, there's a bunch of Wake Forest vs Texas Tech. Also, if the score is 10-2 in the bottom of the 9th, you're probably gonna change the channel, unless you're a diehard fan of one of the teams.
My point here is that we don't need to worry about down time. We just need to air the competition tape delayed. Do you think every Battle Bots match is as entertaining as Disector vs Biohazard? Heck no! They edit down days of competition to get a couple hours of quality footage that they can show over a whole season. This is the kind of thing I envision for FIRST:
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And with 30 seconds left in Curie match 54, it looks like Team 122 has this thing all wrapped up. Back to you, Chuck.
--Back in the booth--
Alright. Thanks, Dave. Wow, did you see the move 122 made there?
I sure did, Chuck. The speed and maneuverability of 122's machine just overwhelmed their opponent and led to an easy victory.
Yes, it did. I hear things are heating up on Newton field. What do ya have for us, Dan?
--On Newton field--
Heating up is right. That's because we have Team 312 Heatwave here. But it's not gonna be an easy match for their alliance if 179 Swamp Thing and 180 SPAM have anything to say about it. These are sister teams from south Florida, and something special always seems to happen when these two get on the field together. And we're underway!
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Excuse my dream sequence here, but you can see what I mean. Robots hitting eachother over the head *does* get boring after a while. FIRST's games are way more interesting than that. With some great personalities and some good editing, even this year's game would work great for TV.