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Re: Simplification - A dissention

Posted by Kris Verdeyen at 04/19/2001 4:06 PM EST


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In Reply to: PUSH to Simplify the Game for 2002 ***Attention FIRST ***
Posted by Andy Baker on 04/19/2001 11:31 AM EST:



The best thing that a complex game has going for it is that it lends itself to many different ways to win. A simple game (like basketball) will lead to hundreds of robots that can pick the ball up, and shoot it. It will come down to whoever makes the most reliable robot and has the best drivers wins.

Now, I know that reliability and driving are very important parts of engineering, but FIRST is "For Inspiriation". I've never looked at a Honda Civic, in all its reliable glory, and felt inspired. Inspiration comes from thinking about problems that have many obvious solutions, all of them equally bad, and discovering one out of the blue that blows them away.

I think that FIRST needs to keep giving us complex games, and we need to keep finding creative solutions to do what the game calls for.


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