i didnt like this years game....please read

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Posted by Kevin Sevcik at 04/11/2001 8:27 AM EST


Other on team #57, Leopards, from BT Washington and the High School for Engineering Professions and Exxon, Kellog Brown & Root, Powell Electrical.


In Reply to: i didnt like this years game....please read
Posted by Travis Covington on 04/10/2001 2:05 AM EST:



Personally, I think this year was a refreshing change from the past years. Admittedly, there were still losers and people were still cheering when another team lost, but that was happening in previous games anyways. I don't thnk the point of this new kind of game was to remove that aspect from the competition or to make certain. once and for all, that all the teams are buddies at the end of the day. As was pointed out numerous times during Woody's and Dean's speeches, the whole point was to remove the violence from the game.

Come on, did anyone really LIKE the vague rules we used to have about tipping and pinning? Did anyone like the fact that your strategy depended on how lenient your judge was feeling? While more luck has been put into the competition by adding more robots, a lot of luck has been taken out by giving the judges lots less questionable things to judge. Personally, I like the fact the we didn't have to worry as much about our robot being destroyed by another team. Not worrying about what could happen is a robot ran into, climbed onto our chassis, and started tearing our electronics to shreds is a good thing. And as for the matches being less exciting, is it really exciting to watch a match where a team loses simply because the opposing team runs them into a wall and pins them there? Personally, I never enjoyed it when teams strategies were based on pinning the other guy to keep him from doing anything. Robots sitting on a field spinning wheels is boring.

So in conclusion, stop complaining about the competition still having teams cheering about another team "failing." That was happening before, and it's the nature of a competition for that to happen. I don't think Dean wants to get rid of that, and I don't think he could if he tried. The whole point here is to get teams to stop cheering about beating each others robots up. Sort of insanely restrictive rules in a head to head competition, this is the only way to do that.