Posted by Jessica Boucher at 1/28/2001 10:37 AM EST
Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.
In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!!
Posted by Andy Grady on 1/28/2001 9:17 AM EST:
About the game.....I like aspects of it, even though I still find it hard to explain to people. I like the moveable goals as well, and I like the bridge idea.
Things might be easier to explain without the stop button thing, and all the different multipliers, but lately Ive been explaining it in this order: point values, multipliers, alliance. That seems to work best.
And about cheering, I still think people will be going nuts. The thing I worry about is teams taking more credit than they really are due. If a match goes well, I see all four teams will be scrambling to show others that it was their robot that "won" the match. As was said, a lot of this game is marketing, and you know there is almost always one person in a group on a project that tries to take the majority of the credit. I hope this doesnt happen, but if it does, we're going to have a lot of info-gleaning to do (or a third-party opinion).
On that note, I also feel that in the Qualifying matches, we're going to be following the "All together, yet all alone" mindset. Yes, we're working together, but all teams are really alone in long-term strategy until the finals. So really, the best-case scenario for teams in this mindset is to find a way to score consistently well, but enough to just push their own team up, and not the rest.
And if that didnt make any sense or is totally wrong, I apologize, Im rambling, I just woke up.
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BTW, two comments to Baker......is "idiot island" referring to Survivor?
Second, let your one-year old type as much as she wants. Theres this old Polaroid of me on my dad's lap in front of a Commodore, banging away at the keys. My dad even created a program later that would show lights and sounds depending on what keys I pressed.
-Jessica B, #237