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Posted by Janna.

Student on team #349, The RoBahamas, from International Academy and Ford Motor Company.

Posted on 8/3/2000 9:39 PM MST


In Reply to: What do you think? posted by Michael Martus on 7/30/2000 7:22 PM MST:



Hey everyone,

I've been thinking about this...and while a lot of people seem to think that 6 weeks is good, I think there are a lot more possibilities opened up with having the robot longer.

*There's the obvious...people will have time to debug their robots. But this could help in a lot more ways than reducing stress levels at competitions. TV, for example is one way. Watching matches where one or two robots don't work well and the others are slow or choppy isn't going to appeal to someone who's never experienced FIRST before. Seeing four capable, well-performing robots has a much better chance of doing that.

*If teams had more time to work on the robot, FIRST could be more creative with game design. The game could become more elaborate because the robots would be able to be designed and built to be more complex. Simplicity is good for things like scoring, but games could be more complex (bigger fields because robots would be built faster, more robots at a time because robots would be more robust) and still keep scoring simple.

*If FIRST made the game more complex, the new time period before the regionals (about two months) would be just as intense because there would be more complicated robots.

*And yes, it would be more stress to deal with, but maybe not as much. I don't know why regionals start 2-4 weeks after ship date, but if it has anything to do with shipping...if teams could just drive their robot to the event (like a regional...not necessarily nationals 'cause that's far) maybe the first regional could be moved up.

Yeah, this would be slightly changing what FIRST is about...but I think through more TV coverage, FIRST could appeal to more people, which is really the point: to get people interested in engineering. I think this is the way to go to get that coverage...to have more appealing robots and a more appealing competition, and a longer build period would help that happen.

Janna


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