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Re: FIRST Robotics as a sport

Going off the wiki definition:

"A sport is commonly defined as an organized, competitive, and skillful physical activity requiring commitment and fair play."

This year i don't think there was much skillful physical activity done by human players... However look at 04, 05, 06, or 09. All of these games were definitely sports.

So with regards to the GDC, I'd say just in the future, always have the human players do some kinda of physical activity. And anyways, the human-robot interaction is usually more exciting too. Seeing human players running along the field in 05 or shooting the balls in 04 created a sense of energy for even those not that interested in robotics.
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