Thread: What will this year's topic be?
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Re: What will this year's topic be?
The contest should be more about the person or persons ability to use the software, not the ability to convey a message. While an animation should make sense, to give them a closed topic like, "What does FIRST mean to you?" is shortchanging peoples talent. Why? You basically just told people to model their robot. The entries I saw before I came onto the Royal Oak robotics team were basically disregarded if it didn't have the following:
A FIRST logo
Something to do with their robot

A lot of the entries I saw (Speaking of the 2002 entries I saw) had excellent graphics and technique, yet they didn't place well simply because their topic meant something to them a purely them.
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