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Re: Lesson Learned: The Negative

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Originally Posted by Pat Roche View Post
The second thing is I would like to see a slightly more diverse game. A larger variety of ways to score would be really cool. Over the last few years I've felt the games have been one dimensional or two dimensional. Last year we could only score with ramps or tubes. This year you really could only hurdle/place the balls or run laps. I also do understand that increasing the ways to score makes the game harder to ref and harder for an outsider to understand at first glance so this might be a pipe dream .
I completely agree. I think the biggest problem with this game was the one demensionality of it. There was really one scoring system that teams had to choose from and build--some way to hurdle. Yes, some teams did build hurders and pure lap robots, but not many of those teams made eliminations at the Championship (besides 148, who was picked last, were there any others?). Last year, there was two main ways to scores--rings and ramps, and we saw two drastically different types of robots that were both equally important and vauled. At the end this year, laps bots that just did laps, were almost pointless, because many of the top scorers were just as fast and got just as many laps while getting a ton of hurdling points. To make an impact, these lap bots had to play defense, which is something teams that build arm or shooters could do too.
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