Why does everyone hate this game so much?

[Brandon_L]

Remind me to guide my kids to build a non-robust robot next season, because all you need is a poorly designed robot and the tech foul gods are on your side.

GDC needs to be fired. Straight up, just going to say it. Go home. I'm tired of you.

We lost too many matches we should have won, including elim matches, because of this bull. With everything else you've put other teams through, you need to make a change. Have you never attended an FRC event yourself? Seriously, what do you expect to happen with one game piece and 3 robots? two robots are doing NOTHING at any given point. And then you have the nerve to put out a rule that basically says "don't touch other robots"? Why in the world was "what if a ball becomes stuck in a robot" an afterthought? Are you kidding me? Are you even aware that most robots at district levels and regionals in some locations can rarely even play the game? We're cheated out of more then 20 MAR points and at risk of not attending because we're sitting on the bubble now.

My kids, my mentors, and myself poured our heart and soul into this robot to make it what it is, including our student captain who is #2 in his class. He is not #1 because of the time he willingly put into this program. We spent countless hours in design to make sure not a single part would fail at events because of anticipated rough defense. And we've only experianced one failure which was a quick and easy fix after two events. We walked away today with the Quality Award, at the cost of being punished on the field for it. You tell me what to do when I have to tell my kids there is nothing we can do other then be at the mercy of inconsistent reffing, poor calls, and the worst rulebook in FRC history all because they worked too hard. How am I supposed to handle this?

GDC if you want to inspire teams to enter engineering fields, you're doing it wrong. Very wrong.

Hey JVN and Vex folk, nows the time to start up a FRC-Sized VEX event. I'm sure more then enough teams will be happy to jump ship at this point.

OP, this game is good in concept. Its execution is amazingly terrible. Its uninspiring and bringing out the worst in people. This is why everyone hates this game.