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As other posters have pointed out, many members of the GDC are or have been involved with a team. When designing the game, their insight is often much deeper than we realize. While we may complain about certain attributes of a game each year, the small inconveniences we may face in the short term often have a greater purpose to educate us in the long run. The games that the GDC designs are always well-thought out, but it is only natural that tens of thousands of smart high school students may have a few questions about each year's new game. The GDC does take feedback from the FIRST community- think about how rules change during the build season, or how they ask for game ideas each year. I wouldn't say that there is a fundamental flaw with the GDC, they do a great job pleasing the vast majority of the thousands of people involved in FIRST each season.