[Soukup]

I think I can completely understand now what everyone is saying about animations being boring. Yes, alot do feature the robot and field, but just remember you can't expect everyone to be creative. Its hard for many teams to learn the program and then come up with cool ideas for their animation in time. Some of the previous posts are a little selfish. It seems that everyone wants to be entertained by every animation. Realize that everyone has to start somewhere and most of these attempts will be quite similar to each other. Part of this deals with the contest guidelines that make it quite easy to make an animation with just a field.

Be patient, because in about 5 years having a robot in an animation will be a rarity. I think this whole animation thing is about 2-3 years from being a MAIN part of FIRST, not just an alternative award. Until then, lets stop talking baout how bored we are with other peoples products and start talking about how creative our own are.