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Originally Posted by Pavan
... It is still the same game to a degree. No matter what you do you are still putting tubes on poles. The fact of the matter is that they had around seven months to develop a challenging UNIQUE game yet they chose to modify an old one. That is my "beef" with FIRST.
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To me that seems like saying that American football is the same game as rugby or Aussie rules, because in all three games the ball is oblong, you throw, catch, kick, and run with it while slamming and getting slammed, and you get points for putting it over the the other team's end line.
The differences and the beauties lie in the details.
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