Why I think having no defense was a great idea

[WillNess]

Originally Posted by Melissa McBrien

Although, in my opinion, the robots this year were more uniform in their appearance and approach to strategy than in the previous 7 years that I've been around FIRST..

Whaaaa? I guess I could maybe see strategy being the same due to the simplicity of the game. The game goal was to stack totes and put a bin on top. That was it. Last year it was passing, shooting over truss, two different goals, you had to make combos with shooting over truss into human player, into other robots, assists. I understand that. But appearance? I saw so many different mechanisms to pick up the totes and recycling bins, as well as tethered robots are something completely new. Robots were built to either grab from the feeder station or the landfill. There were robots that had ramps, and much more. In 2010 all of the robots were basically the same except 469, that year (in my opinion) was the year with the most uniform robot appearance.