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| View Poll Results: Is Battlebots I.Q. a threat to FIRST? | |||
| Nope, true quality and decency will show through, XFL |
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77 | 34.53% |
| Although Battlebots will climb up, they won't be that big, think UPN vs. NBC, ABC, or CBS |
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56 | 25.11% |
| They will be on the same level, like American and National baseball leagues |
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39 | 17.49% |
| Battelbots IQ is a better concept and will triumph over FIRST |
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12 | 5.38% |
| Don't Care |
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39 | 17.49% |
| Voters: 223. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Re: Battlebots I.Q.- A serious threat to FIRST or a half thought up cheep copy?
Before we discuss who is better we need to figure out why we participate in First...
FIRST has by far more educational and technological benefits than any battlebot or robotwar competition will ever have. For instance The robots that work in tragedy's like 9/11 and in earthquakes are products of intellectual thinkers like us who are given a task and need to figure out a way to complete that task in the most efficient way possible. We design manipulators and drive systems that when our generation truly becomes (and we are close) the engineers of tomorrow we will look back at our days in FIRST and say something like "I remember in the 2007 First competition we needed to do something just like this" Thats what we are doing here, preparing for future problems that we may encounter in the world of problem solving. BUT... FIRST is also meant to draw students to the world of engineering. We are hooked already but to bring in new blood we need to keep the games exciting. And face it a game where we are penalized for bumping too hard is not exciting to the amateur observer. We find it exciting because we know what went into making the bots and solving the problem. That why Battle bots will be successful, students will chose explosions and sparks flying over FIRST To get back the new students we need to find a happy medium where the games are exciting the the amateur eye and still continue to be as mentally challenging as we enjoy i didn't realize the thread was so old when i wrote this but the points are still valid Last edited by Chaos204 : 04-10-2005 at 10:12. Reason: I didnt realize how old this was |
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