Creativity Award to Champs

[pabeekm]

This reminds me of a post someone made awhile back about making a scouting award. It prompted this comment:

Originally Posted by Chris is me

The Scouting Award exists. It's called "Championship Winner".

Along a similar vein, I think creative approaches to the game challenge should be appreciated as just that: approaches to the game challenge. I’m a little worried about what will happen if people perceive creative ideas as just something you would do for a highly valuable award.

I don't want to see people deciding that teams' creative designs are made for the sake of being flashy and not for competitiveness (trust me, that kind of judgement happens enough already). That attitude easily becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, because a lot of unorthodox strategies don’t seed well and rely on alliance captains seeing their competitive potential.

This idea could actually make it harder for creative bots to succeed in competition. Yay, pessimism!

I'm sorry OP, it's a very nice thought. Maybe a better way to promote creativity is to expose more people to the ways effective creative teams operate. 1114's strategy presentations are a great start, for example (http://www.simbotics.org/resources/strategy).