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Re: Poor Man's Balance
Posted by Chris Orimoto at 03/11/2001 4:31 PM EST


Student on team #368, Kika Mana, from McKinley High School and Nasa Ames/Hawaiian Electric/Weinberg Foundation.


In Reply to: Poor Man's Balance
Posted by Justin on 03/11/2001 12:07 PM EST:



I somehow view the "sticky" bridge as another facet of
strategy. For all we know, a team could have built a
practice bridge, found that it can "balance" like 1/4"
off the ground, and then designed their robot to
balance like that. It's just another part of the
competition.

As for time multipliers, I'll have to agree that they
do make the rounds "boring" at times. However, the
time factor creates yet ANOTHER part of the strategical
element. Teams have yet another way to raise their
score, which can (and probably has) resulted in even
MORE varied robot designs.

My only point to add is this year's difficulty. It's
good that FIRST add difficulty to each year's game so
that veteran teams do not get bored. However, what
about rookie teams? Has FIRST gone too far with the
difficulty rating of this year's competition as to
discourage rookie teams from competing again? I guess,
(in the words of Dr. Joe) Time will tell...

Just my personal thoughts
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