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Originally Posted by Mushrooshi
To be honest half of the robots at Atlanta were the exact same type of mechanism. I hope next year the challenge will allow no straight forward solution, so that we see millions of different kinds of robots.
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Yeah, that tends to happen a lot in FTC, but it was way worse than usual this year. My guess is that it's because of the limited parts of the new kit, and also because of the design of the game.
Face-Off only had one real way of scoring: the center area, the only part of which that gave really good points was the triangle. In contrast, last year's game had three different ways of scoring: high posts, low posts, and goals, all of which had roughly the same scoring potential (well, not the goals unless you were really good at defense). Combine that with the ease of getting pucks out of the rack and the limited parts the new kits had, and hey presto there goes design diversity.
A better game and greater part selection will go a long way toward fixing this.