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Re: FIRST Frenzy Opinion Thread

I'm still not to sure what I think about this game, time will tell. But I do have a few problems with it, this is one of them

The fact that only the human players are allowed to score the small balls bothers me. I know FIRST seems to want to emphasize human-robot partnership, but think about it. Designing a robot to put balls in that small mobile goal is not hard. But, designing a robot to put balls in that static goal, which is on the platform by the stairs and whose lowest poles are 6 feet high, is much more difficult to design (especially if you're trying to make a ball device that can load into a small goal, and a big goal) Hence, I think if the robot was allowed to score the small balls, the human players would still be extremely important by sheer virtue of the fact that robots would have a rather tough time getting balls in that big goal. Thus, I think FIRST could still have achieved its goal of having the human player be extremely important. Get what I'm saying?
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