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Re: Trying not to seed.... (same wish)haha
Posted by nick237 at 03/20/2001 8:10 PM EST
Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co. In Reply to: Re: Trying not to seed.... (same wish) Posted by Ken Leung on 03/20/2001 5:56 AM EST: Ken. you must be assuming some one in FIRST cares what you or any one else has to say. If I had a wish I would wish that they at "FIRST" would listen to the "COMMON FOLKS" and work with some of the great ideas that have been seen on this site. nick237 : : However, if I was allowed only one wish to change something, it would not be this. I would use my wish to allow more teams to be in the eliminations from each division in the nationals. : : Raul : : I also would use my wish to have more teams going into the eliminations... Just like the regionals where 4 alliances go into the elimination, and determine the winner of the regional, but in this case, the winner of a division. : I wish, I wish, I wish, but nothing is going to happen if I don't do anything about it... : : But there are so many good things about this... : Here are a couple of comments people came up with about this: : : The whole point of FIRST is to inspire students into Science and Technology. By getting more teams into the finals, more students will have been involved in the heat of the competition, and more students will ultimately be more inspired. Especially this year, the finals are much more exciting than the qualification matches. It is much easier to keep students inspired when they are involved and excited. Having more teams in the finals can only help to get more students inspired about science and technology. : This is an unduly difficult challenge for teams, both rookie and veteran. However, the pressure on rookies is likely to make nationals a less appealing experience than regionals, thus reducing the growth of teams competing in the nationals, and reducing the growth of FIRST as a whole. This helps in public relations and sponsorship as well as boosting team morale. Treating each division as a regional will makes things more familiar to teams, making it a less stressful experience for each team. In addition, each team will be much closer with each team in their division, allowing a better bonding experience. : Most people will be in favor of getting more teams into the finals, regardless of the likely consequences. After watching the first regionals, we see that the finals are very fast paced, with few matches lasting longer than a minute, and virtually none lasting for the allotted two. While adding another round to the finals would increase the length, it would not be much, if any, longer than what finals have been in the past. : FIRST has made changes to the game play during the season in the past: FIRST : implemented the spare alliance partner during Great Lake regional in 99. Also, FIRST ended up increasing the # of teams in elimination at Nationals...it only makes sense...larger event = more teams advance... There should be no reason that they can't do it again. |
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