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Posted by nick237 at 1/9/2001 10:11 PM EST


Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.


In Reply to: It's a different kind of Excitement
Posted by Matt Leese on 1/8/2001 11:33 PM EST:



I have an idea, how about we just design a robot on paper, submit the drawings and let dean pick a winner.
The winners name could be posted on the usfirst web page and then we can wait for next years game/submission.
A boring game is a boring game no matter how you play it.


: I think I may have just come up with a better comparison than to golf: Figure Skating. Figure skating has no head to head competition, has no contact whatsoever, and still manages to be incredibly popular. With the same group? no. Maybe, for once, Dean and company are trying to reach out to a *shudder* different group of people. Just because it's not your kind of excitement doesn't mean it's not exciting. And as far as wasting money, there's no way any money is ever wasted on a FIRST Competition. Heck, the most important part of the competition has to do with the part that takes place off the field. That's why everyone is a winner. Anyone else realize that FIRST has been increasing the number of winners over the past couple years? And remember that they still give out only one Chairman's Award. 'Cause that's where it's at. Please remember what the whole point of FIRST is: to inspire and recognize science and technology. You don't need to be BattleBots to do that. There's going to be a lot of competition this year. It's just not going to be the same as it was before. And that's okay by me. I can get excited by figuring skating and by ice hockey.

: Matt whose really kind of getting tired of people saying how bad this years game is before a single match has been played.....strike that......before a single robot has been built....