[SteveC116]

Another good question would be what can you put into your animation to prevent you from winning?

What I mean by this is "what has been so overdone that it will not get you very many creativity points?" Honestly, I'm getting tired of space and explosions. So many teams have a space scene including spaceships, explosions, and sometimes even aliens. Thats great if you can do it technically well, but it just lacks the creativity that FIRST teams should try for.

I admit that Team 116 did a space scene two years ago. It went like this: Space ship is seen in space. Space ship crash lands (cue explosion). Robot exists and enters a field on Mars (cue banjo music). If you look in your DVD from two years ago you will see it. It's rather amusing and I sugest you watch it just to hear the music.

For Rookie teams it can be forgiven, but if your team has an animation group that has some experience, try to go for something more technically difficult that shows some creativity (just my opinion about the space scenes).

Or you can all follow this script:

Narrator: FIRST ROBOTICS - INSPIRING STUDENTS
(See two students building robot)
Narrator: FIRST ROBOTICS - INSPIRING ALIENS
(See space ship fly by - camera zooms in and you see two aliens)
Narrator: FIRST ROBOTICS - INSPIRING THE PLANET MARS
(See mars)
Narrator: FIRST ROBOTICS - INSPIRING EXPLOSIONS
(See explosion)
THE END

Sorry to seem sarcastic, it just seems that these space scenes are just so cliche.

What else have you all seen done repetitively?