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Originally Posted by Herodotus
If the GDC wants to encourage others to watch, removal of defense is not the way to go. Who cares about the score? The score is just numbers on a board, the exciting part is watching the robots interact and seeing robots( and more importantly, people) do the impossible.
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I complete agree. Think about this if you will; how interesting would football, soccer,or NASCAR be with out defense? Many like to see others achieve high scores. But most like to see those battle for their points and even fail time to time. If you knew Jeff Gorden was going to run the fastest laps, NASCAR would be pretty boring. The reason people watch it is to see Jeff in the wall or just barely avoid it. NASCAR fans like the bumping, scrapping, and
blocking .
Which sounds better?:
"team 1114 just scored their 6th hurdle of the match."
or
"team 1114 just gained the lead with another hurdle despite being bombarded with heavy defense by those two red robots!"
My 2 cents boil down to:
Defense is fun to watch! and it seems that the GDC is trying to take it away.
