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Re: Excitement matters
Posted by nick237 at 1/8/2001 9:27 PM EST
Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.
In Reply to: Excitement doesn't matter
Posted by Matt Leese on 1/8/2001 3:48 PM EST:
How popular do you think Ice Hockey would be if there was no contact between players, and what if at the end of the game all the points were shared except for teams that wore a "red" shirt, they got an extra 10%?
A discused senerio might be " Hey did anyone see the Hockey match finals last night, Killer Smith did a beautiful figure 8 in the center of the Rink and a pirioet " Oh yes and the best part was there was no violence or fighting.
Hockey with harmony and Love.
Lets all have a group hug and kiss a wasted year good bye, not to mention the $63.000 that our team has to scrounge up by begging sponsors to give us each a few bucks in support of a robotics competition that last year depicted two team beating the snot out of each other for control of a ramp and bar.
I will bet many of the teams that joined FIRST this year based on the excitement from last years game were disapointed by this years senerio. I also bet many will not be back in 2002.
The nature of the game is to look a team in the eye and say I won. I want the old system back, amano amano.
I will make one more prediction and that is that FIRST will never have 4 teams together as one again.
Dean must know that the majority of teams are not happy with this type of a game.
Nick237
: : Indeed it will appeal to you, and even myself, but to the average spectator, it will most likely not.
: : I don't see this one being much of a non-FIRST crowd pleaser.
: That implies that the point is to please the non-FIRST crowd. What do we gain by doing so? Sure, it can be said that it will encourage people to join FIRST but I don't think that just the excitement level of a game will convince someone to suddenly start a team. It's also not going to impress sponsors because they should realize that the whole point is about engineering. So why does it matter how exciting the game is to someone else? We're not trying to sell television rights here. This isn't the NFL. There's no money to be made by selling tickets. So it doesn't matter how exciting it is to spectators. Those of us who already like it will watch the competitions. Those who aren't interested won't.
: Matt
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