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Re: POLL: Will you be using a scoring aid?

When it comes to tabulating score, you shouldn't need paper or any mechanism to do the scoring for you. Maybe it's my three years of being drilled into the skill of counting, adding, subtracting, and multiplying in binary that leads me to think that but the logic isn't all that hard.

The first meeting my team had after kick off, while we were waiting for our second school to show up, I took it upon my self to diagram out the rack (flat) to try and calculate a perfect score. They didn't arrive until a short time after I had completed it, but the first words out of their mouthes...were "that looks like binary".

And don't we have to put our team numbers on the controller in binary anyway? I know that if you were to give me a team number, within a few seconds I could tell you the value for each bit for that number (within a reasonable amount of time of course). So maybe it's a useful skill this year for students/drive team*especially*/coaches to learn binary so they can easily calculate the score in their head. The hardest part would be accounting for where game pieces are nullified because of a spoiler or which ever other way they can be, because you may not be able to see them. But when you think about it, all it is is binary.

<goes slightly off topic...but I feel it needs to be said>

I think last year spoiled us with the "real time scoring", yes it makes it seem more like a real sport, but FIRST isn't like any other sport out there. FIRST is about getting kids excited about technology and wanting to go into a field where they can use their minds in a productive way. What's the big deal about knowing who is ahead in points? Why does it seem that the most important aspect is who is winning or who is going to win? Winning will get you some glory, but that's just about it. An employer isn't going to care whether or not your team won a FIRST competition, but they're gonna care that you're in career track that you're in and that you can be the best that you can be, and if its FIRST that caused that, then more power to FIRST.

<returning back to topic...>

I know my team will not be using any electronic devices besides the controller (duh), nor do I think they will bring anything up there to help assist in calculating score.
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