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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 8/15/2000 8:49 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Wholesale vs retail...-PLEASE READ posted by Dan on 8/15/2000 8:25 PM MST:



The success of Battle Bots, Robot Wars, Junkyard Wars, etc. is all very encouraging.

I have never attended a Robot Wars-type competition, but I would if one were in the area. I would participate in Robot Wars if I could clone myself. As it stands, I have to pick my battles and I choose FIRST.... at least for the present.

I have only seen on Battle Bots tape, but I was very much impressed by the help folks gave to eachother in the pits. I am quite sure that it is very FIRST-like.

But...

That said, I still like FIRST better. The main reason basically boils down to the same reason I like to what football more than boxing. It is not that I don't enjoy the fight, it is that I sort of hate myself for enjoying it. Let me explain. While at the end of the day, a lot of football player end up leaving the field in a horizontal attitude, unlike boxing, that is not the main purpose of the whole game, there are other goals that are primary which sometimes result in hurt players.

So it is with FIRST and Battle Bots. A lot of robots get broken in FIRST, but the goal is too DO something or prevent something from being done, not to break the other robot. This cannot be said of BattelBots.

And so...

I am sticking with FIRST for now. Hoping that somehow FIRST can make itself TV friendly enough to make it to Prime Time.

Joe J>


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