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Unread 04-03-2005, 21:02
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Re: How on Earth are spectators meant to easily discern who wins?

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Hey everyone, Its a ghost from the past :^)

Ive been too busy at my new job to be on a team, or to even keep up with whats going on this year

But I could not pass up the New Finger Lakes Regional at RIT in rochester, esp since my new company is only about 2 miles away

I got there this morning when matches were allready being played, and I sat in the bleechers for a while and had two predominate thoughts

1. WOW! this is awesome - we waiting for a Rochester Regional for so long

and

2. I have NO IDEA whats happing on the field, what the score is, whos winning

after 3 or 4 hours I caught on a little. I agree with the first post in this thread, walk-in spectators are not going to have a clue whats going on this year

but I gotta add, having 6 bots on the field all doing their stuff sure looks impressive!
Ken, first of all: Welcome back!! The boards haven't been quite the same since the beginning of your hiatus.

As for spectators, I agree it will be very hard to catch on. While the game is simple to explain, it can get very complicated in actual play.

As for actual penalties, I agree with sanddrag. While FIRST isnt battlebots, its still fun to go and push other robots around. Guess we'll just have to avoid the loading stations..
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