[Drwurm]

Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19

Which is he more likely to understand. "The payload specialist throws the moon rocks into the crater" or "The human player throws the orbit balls onto the field?"

Agreed. This is a bit of a departure from what I feel the past few years have done. The game rules are confusing enough every year, why try to force a theme into it and apply these silly names?

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I disagree with you. It's about partnerships. I've always mentioned the education/industry, teams/communities, and mentor/student partnerships in my FIRST "elevator speech". I might start listing the human/robot partnership as well.

I liked 2004's game a lot -- where all the scoring of balls in goals was done by the Human Player, and robots were prohibited from doing it.

Indeed. This is much similar to what a real world scenario is. Who sees robots accomplishing complex tasks all on their own in 5 years? Who sees robots working in conjunction with humans to ease complex tasks in 5 years? I believe the latter is the more plausible scenario.