Recycle Rush reminiscent of FIRST Lego League

[Ali Mansour]

Is it just me, or does this year's Recycle Rush game feel like a large scale FIRST Lego League (FLL) competition? The lack of interaction between opposing alliances, the fact there is no attention given to a team's win/loss ratio, it is just a scoring race than an actual competition. Even the totes are like big LEGO bricks. It will certainly make cheering during a match awkward, since you cannot even know if a team is 'winning,' even if winning mattered during a match. I wonder if FIRST will begin to always take this approach with there games, or if this is just a one time thing for the FIRST Robotics Competition. It certainly would be interesting to see an FLL model continue with FRC or begin with the FIRST Vex Challenge.

Any thoughts? Yays, nays? Future of FIRST?