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Re: FIRST Frenzy Opinion Thread

although i am a fan of this game, i can't give it a thumbs up, not yet, anyway. i also have a couple of points to make. the stairs - not really that big of a deal, if your wheels are large enough they'll just seem like a speed bump. as well, on the not being able to goaltend, is it possible however to keep the goal as perhaps a moving target thus making scoring harder? i also agree with alex (magnasmific) that the idea of QPs is a really big turn-off. i don't like that at all, it gives away the whole idea of wanting to win, which i guess could be seen as good, but then again, it just gives such a larger chance of fixed matches. i also don't like the dependency on the human player, yes, it's nice to give them a chance to do something for more than 10 seconds, but it takes away largely from the engineering aspects of the robot, which i think will just cause less expert designs and improvement, which last time i checked, was something FIRST was big on. i'm hoping as the season goes on my opinions will change, especially come the NJ Regional in week 1, but that's my $0.02 for now.
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