[FAF] - June 28, 2013 - Game Design Committee

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Originally Posted by Chris is me

It seems like this mentor is frustrated about his team's performance and is lashing out at the game design for causing that.

I did a little research. The only regional 3289 attended was the Utah regional. They were the #3 alliance captain. They were defeated in the semi-finals by the #2 alliance. This video shows 1891 on the #2 alliance make climbing look easy (literally). This combined with the fact that a disproportional number of robot reveal videos on YouTube are 30 point climbers could create the illusion that the asker is believing. Also, there is only 1 member of Chief Delphi who lists 3289 as their team, and he/she has only 1 post. So although CD isn't the sole medium of communication between teams, its very likely that the asker has very few connections to teams outside his area.

I don't see any problem with the GDC's communication of how the game should be played: this year was the first year where the vast majority of teams aimed for a strategy that was within their means and executed well. The complaints in this question were caused because a person was put into an unusual set of circumstances where so many things that he encountered led him to believe that climbing was both easy and unreasonably valuable; he could not see the full picture. And there is not much we can do about it; if teams choose to not use chief delphi or some other way of interacting with teams from around the world, we can't force them to change that. All we can do is keep trying to encourage it.