This year's "game" is a job, not a game

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im gonna be honest and say this game sucks. Worst game in the history of FRC. So boring to watch there are people sleeping in the stands myself included. Frankly it makes me not wanna participate at all. This whole everyone wins, no one loses is what So many people reach for, I heard Woodie talking about it at our first event and it makes for a rather terrible game.

1. this game is the most unfair Job, that has yet to be played, there is no strategic challenge to it and its purely offense. the good robots win uncontested. Our team is a team that never builds a robot like 1114 or 254 that dominates the whole competition if we had to go head to head in an offensive game against any of these "top team" we would lose. we just don't have the resources, people and money to build a robot like that. What makes are team competitive is being able to slow down the opponent so that they are on our level. Last year you could do this. This year not at all your a sitting duck.

2. There are alliances telling there 3rd partner to "sit out or stay on the sidelines" because they will get in the way to me this sounds like the exact opposite of what the GDC was shooting for and what Woodie was preaching at the event. im sure if there were alliances sitting out there 3rd robot last year they didn't make it to far.

3. coopertition ABSOLUTELY SUCKS. another one of the EVERYONE WINS philosophy, obviously this only helps the teams the arnt considered top. looking at the score board you can see 1114 2056 254 they don't score coopertition why would they help the other team score points when they can score more points then a 3 robot alliance can together. Just like in 2012 coopertition makes for an unfair playing field. our team went undefeated in 2012 and was ranked 3rd when we were the only team undefeated, because of this we had to settle with different alliance partners costing us the win. looks to me like advantage

4. EVERYONE WINS PHILOSOPHY what is the GDC woodie and DEAN trying to say when they come up with games and speak of this. I'm sure there aware in the real world people do in fact lose, sports teams lose, people lose there jobs. Life is a competition your always trying to be better then the person your competing with whether its for a job or getting accepted to a collage. I don't understand why they switched from win lose. To no more losing there are teams that are ranked in the top then that really shouldn't be ranked there not to be mean, but got carried through by other teams, yes this happens every year but it is soo much worse this year.

This game takes the C out of FRC it should be called FRG first robotics game cause that's all it is to me now. They went from an AMAZING COMPETITION a year ago where you could make up for a bad robot through a good drive team to a GAME where your pretty much stuck with what you got and you just go out there match after match scoring as many points as you can hoping and praying you get picked by the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, seed. because if your not you go out there in eliminations knowing you cant do anything to stop the other team from scoring massive points and that your only chance of moving on is if the opponent robot breaks.

Sounds like a pretty horrible game to me, and boy do i hope they never ever ever ever go back to a game like this again. I don't know how many more matches i can take of knowing there is nothing we can do to prevent our-self's from losing besides praying we get lucky with our alliances.

Am i being inconsiderate overly aggressive mean and rude maybe but its america and I am aloud to voice my opinion, and i know im not alone out there in these feelings.This was a major regression step in the direction i believe FIRST wants to proceed towards.

Rant over.