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Re: 2008 Game Format Preference

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Originally Posted by TetraBot View Post
Don't ya think this is much cooler!? At least we'd see MUCH MORE robots achieving the tasks given during the competition and less robots designed based purely on defense.

Don't get me wrong. I think defense is still a vital component of the game. And it is what makes FIRST competitions fun. But teams should really be focusing more on the task at hand.

Plus (and this has little to do with the competition format), I think that there should be an award for teams who manage to gain the highest number of qualification points. That way, more people would try harder to build a cool robot and just some defender.
I think you're underestimating some of the effort teams put into their defenders. We were on the recieving end of plenty of defense at regionals this year, and let me tell you...some of those drive trains are pretty intense. Just because someone doesn't have a massive, shiny, high-scoring arm doesn't mean they're any less inspiring to the students or any less capable of competing.
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