Aerial Assist and Ill Will

[BrendanB]

Ian I too share your feelings.

I think we all can see how the game will be played at the highest level but the reality is that at the lowest level the game will be extremely boring to watch and if you have one good robot on an alliance with two robots who can do very little issues will come up.

I'm really stuck as to how a/our team would carry out a match on both sides of the spectrum. All of our teams have the potential to be a high caliber scoring robot but looking over past years of FRC it is easy to see that most teams that compete will not perform to such a high level.

For me I don't want to go into a match steam rolling my partners (if we have a great robot) and I don't want to be the one getting steam rolled (if we have a not so great robot). Then again I know we have a match to win and its not right for an a good team (either us or a better robot on our alliance) to get screwed because we have to share the one ball we get with our partners. I'm not looking forward to any scenarios where "ball fights" occur.

This will be one of those games where at really good events the eliminations will be exciting to watch but at early/bad events I'm going to have to say it will be a miss for FIRST.

Its one of those "pie in the sky" games. It would be great if Aerial Assist is played at that level but the reality is it won't.