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Changes...are they really needed?
Posted by Nate Smith.
Other on team #66, GM Powertrain/Willow Run HS, from Eastern Michigan University and GM Powertrain.
Posted on 8/17/2000 11:27 AM MST
In Reply to: Made for TV posted by colleen on 8/16/2000 8:21 AM MST:
: So i am 1000000% in favor of changing the field, the scoring, the game to make it as viewer-friendly as possible.. so that next year ESPN, Nickelodeon, CNN, etc find their way to our competitions.. to our pits.. and communicate FIRSTs intentions to the world...
Personally, in the three years that i've been involved with FIRST, this year's game was one of the most viewer-friendly that I've seen...in that respect, I don't feel that the game needs to be changed tremendously to make it any easier to understand. If we try to make a competition/game that can be understood in 10 seconds, there will not be enough depth to the game to allow the many different types of machines and strategies that have become a part of FIRST for so many of us...more comments in some of the other 'regionalization' and 'made for tv' discussions...
Nate
: And how this all got started with Joe's suggestion to have the finals during the Awards Ceremony.. i totally agree.. the games that make it on to Monday Night Football aren't because the stands are empty..you would never see those games.. pack the stadium and the press will hear the call that it's what the people WANT TO SEE.. let's crowd the stands and get FIRST into everyone.. no matter how we relay the message to them...
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