[Warren Boudreau]

What we are all struggling with is the disparity between the game rules, and the tournament rules.

The game rules are very well written and offer up the possibility of a very exciting game that incorporates both the physical challenges and the mental challenges that we have all come to appreciate from the GDC.

The tournament rules, however, dilute the competitive aspects of the game rules and replaces them with something very different.

The challenge before each of us is to determine how much of a paradigm shift are we willing to adjust to.

When conventional groups are confronted with these types of paradigm shifts, the result, typically, is a polarization within the groups. Look to our current political environment as an example.


I offer up the hope that we of the FIRST community will be able to avoid this polarization and accept that others will be more, or less, willing to adjust to the changes the same way that we accept that they choose to drink diet soda instead of regular soda. It's a choice, and it is, after all, only a game.