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Originally Posted by craigbutcher
I am a mentor for a rookie team.
I guess my reaction is very different from those posting here. It seems most wanted more 'contact action'.
Personally I was disappointed at Purdue by all the pushing and banging. Teams were moving halfway across the field and whacking into other robots. At Western Michigan I saw a lot less, and I found it more exciting. Some wonderful robots were really exhibiting their manipulation and drive capabilities. The defense was strategic, not brutal.
Maybe it's just that I like tennis and golf and racquetball where part of the whole game is to see what both you and your opponent can do; you take turns, you applaud a great shot. You don't cough or jog his arm to screw him up.
I loved seeing the high scores. To my mind, it's a lot more challenging and elegant to maneuver and put ingenious manipulation mechanisms to work than to just plow into people and push them around. I have a feeling that's what Dean and Woody were talking about, too--why the game was devised this year to reward scoring more than suppressing others' scoring.
I guess I'm just not really normal.
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well said~
I totally agree with you.
Physical defense and interference are two different things in my opinion. Too many robots bang and ram when all that does is take away from the game, and ruins 6 weeks of hard work to develope a robot that can achieve the tasks. Building a robot that only plays to keep others from completing the tasks when it can't itself is ridiculous.