[generalbrando]

While I agree that it's great for everyone to understand the game easily and at the same time agree that it's not necessary for Mom to understand it (football was given as an example), I feel like there's no link between our viewing audience's ability to understand and the complexity of the game for us. Put more simply, how easy it is to understand doesn't have to effect the ingeniuity of our robots. As long as the game challenges us to come up with something new and exciting, it can be easier or harder to understand as far as I'm concerned.

As a separate argument: If the game is easier to understand, we're more likely to attract he public's eye and bring more people into FIRST. I'm not saying we need to have our own prime time special or that it would be a good thing for that to happen. I'm saying it would be good to get more people interested - that's the infectious purpose of FIRST.