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Originally Posted by gblake
Based on the above, I do expect the nature of the FTC games to change in the direction of becoming more like FLL challenges rather than staying the same as in past seasons, or becoming more like FRC challenges.
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I got some flashes of this in the last few days, but nothing I can really put my finger on. In my very strong opinion, the more FIRST makes FTC look like FLL, the more teams will avoid it. There is no way a juiced-up FLL is going to serve as "high school competition robotics for less money." The more FTC looks like FRC, the better it will be, and this will have to include permanent team numbers, wider variety of parts than even Vex has right now (and despite some obvious strengths of the the FTC kit, it will be a while before they can come close to matching the richness of parts choices in Vex), and serious competitions that resemble FRC games. For my part, I would like to see a an FTC version of "Aim High" using 2-inch foam balls. That would rock. Doing pretend under-sea exploration or toxic waste removal would cause a mass abandonment of FTC.
I'm a FIRST loyalist, and made a conscious decision to step down from FRC to FTC. If FTC becomes SFLL, I'm out of the program. I'll either go back to FRC, or switch to some other competition.