[Nigel]

it seems to me that people who are wanting more "diversity" want less teamwork... they say that previous years there was more to do so yay more diversity, but from my admittedly limited experience with FIRST this year's game does the most to make the word Alliance mean something... you can't just go off on your own and yknow do 100000 laps in autonomous and win if your your alliance no matter what, just kinda doin your own thing... last year, same deal, each bot basically had no reason to interact with their alliance mates etc... this year you HAVE to work together and alliance selections span the entirety of the rankings as bots specialize into offense, midfield, and defense... basically yes there might be less "diversity" but I think it's better this way because even a "god bot" like 469 is useless without good teammates to help them, whereas in past years out of the box designs could easily win entire years by themselves.

Summary: Mayhaps less diversity, but definitely more teamwork among alliance mates, I think this is a good direction to go with the games by the GDC.