Thread: Battlebots is NOT violence
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It wasn't the idea, it's execution
Posted by James Jones at 04/12/2001 8:30 AM EST


Engineer on team #267, The Demolition Squad, from North Broward & St Andrews and Motorola.


In Reply to: Re: The point is....
Posted by Wayne Cokeley on 04/11/2001 6:27 PM EST:




As a team that lost to you guys at in semifinals last year I can certainly say we didn't feel you bent the rules in any way. I would seriously doubt FIRST does either. We had a similar idea but the idea of building a 130lb robot with such a long, overhung telescoping arm that would get pounded by other robots scared me to death. I'm sure alot of other teams though of the idea but killed it for that reason or the fact that it the strategy didn't play real well in seeding. If we thought of it, I'm sure FIRST thought of it. The fact is you guys executed the design more successfully than we and many other teams thought could be done. As far as FIRST not contacting you, maybe other past winners can chime in, does FIRST contact any team after the season's over?

Bottom line, you guys "thought down" the game and had a great robot last year but don't get a guilty conscience about forcing changes in the game this year. Hey, we bent a few robots and got some people upset with us last year, maybe we're to blame for "coopertition".



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