What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?

[jweston]

I would greatly appreciate it if future playing fields are not nearly as expensive/time intensive to build as Stronghold's. Yeah, Stronghold is a really, really cool and beautiful game. And building a practice field is a fine challenge. But I don't think I'm alone in thinking that being able to build even a partial practice field from wood for this year was very difficult, even for some of the better resourced teams.

It felt like the flashiness and effort to build the field this year took some of the focus of the robot. It would be nice if the time and expense of a practice field received greater consideration when designing the game.

I'm expecting next year's field will be completely empty except for gaffer tape.