[Justin]

Hello,

I'd just like to say taht I agree with Mike's thoughts on the bridge. I was kicking the BattleCry game back and forth with someone last night and I came to many of the same conclusions. There was no way that the bridge would ever have been balanced w/out the control rules. Also you can't really eliminate the bridge because then you tick off teams whose sole function is to balance the bridge. I think that the non-versitale robots hurt competive hopes for 2001 as well. Look at 2on2 games many teams tried to build a robot that did many different functions. Very seldom did you see a team that did only one task do well into on to. Foucs was on being both offensive or defensive becauase you never knew which task that your robot would have to perform. (There are exceptions to this the 2000 robot from Central HS CHAOS comes to mind.) This year however you knew there was no defense...so u didn't have to build your robot for defense. You also knew that chances are you would get in the match with a team that could do big balls...so you might not even need to manipulate balls maybe you just did the ramp. This is contary to all of teh 2on2 thinking. I think this year we are just to far on the opposite end of the specturm from 2on2 or competion.

-Justin