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Re: Lesson Learned: The Negative
Before I say anything about Overdrive let me state that I still found it to be enjoyable overall, especially when I was driving. I just don't like some of the specifics.
First, the on field restrictions and penalties. The G22, the impeding, and the protection while hurdling, mostly. I am personally a part of the camp that believes that there shouldn't be that many rules guiding how the robots interact on the field, other than rules regarding destructive behavior. I don't like the game for the simple fact that it forces you to just drive in circles. Yes, you hurdle while driving in circles but you are still just driving in circles.
Though I see the benefit of racing style games, I just don't think that is where FIRST games should be going. It was nice having a simple and easy to explain game. We could explain the rules to someone who has never seen a robotics competition in just a few sentences. So for spectators it was certainly good, but I just didn't really like the restrictions that a race imposes.
I'm also part of the camp that enjoys watching robot interaction. I've always felt defense like in 2006 and 2007 offered even more interesting matches, though I know others disagree. I always enjoyed seeing teams score over a tenacious defensive bot, or even pushing defending bots out of the way and scoring anyways. Some bots(Wildstang comes to mind) could simply scoot around a defending bot and put tubes up anyways.
So I suppose I would simply say less field restrictions overall is better. The more freedom in the game the better.
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2009 Detroit Xerox Creativity Award
2009 Detroit District Finalists - Thanks to 1856 and 2620
2009 Kettering District Quarter-Finalists - Thanks to 1504 and 1025.
2008 Kettering Kickoff Champions - Thanks to 67, 1075 & 2619
2008 MARC Finalists - thanks 67 & 226
2008 Great Lakes Finalists - thanks 66 & 217
2008 Western Michigan Semi-Finalists - thanks 2337 and 1504
2008 GLR Judges Award Winner
2007 Curie Division Champions - thanks 330 and 1270
2007 ARC Champions (13 and 0, plus scoring a double-keeper!) - thanks 1625 and 313
2007 MARC Champions - thanks 1732 and 1023
2007 Xerox Creativity Award - Western Michign
2006 I.R.I. Champions - thanks 71 and 1625
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