[Lee Reid 3136]

Originally Posted by CallieJ

I really liked the bumper requirements for this year. They did make the game a little less entertaining (no tie-dye bumpers or bumpers with little monkeys on them) but from an onlooker's perspective I think it made it easier to see the scope of the game. The little flags are really hard to pick out when you're trying to scout an alliance, and the bumpers make my job a lot easier.

I agree. I love how easy the bumpers make it to differentiate the alliance. I've watch some of the videos of Overdrive on The Blue Alliance and it basically impossible to tell who is on who's team unless they're controlling one of the balls.

Originally Posted by 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

I agree with Nigel. Breakaway seems to be a much more team oriented game then in years past. In some ways, Breakaway does encourage robots to be less diverse, to do one thing well and then choice teammates who can do things you can't.

Also what does diversity even mean?(In this scenario, I know what it means normally) I mean your taking a whole bunch of people from all across the world, giving them a challenge, and saying "go." Every team is going to approach the challenge a different way and unless the teams are working together (and even then it's iffy) there is never going to be two identical robots. How is that not diverse? More or less diverse, that's just nitpicking. Robots are robots and robots are cool, no matter how many bells and whistles, or kickers and climbers it has.