Animation Winners at Nats

[xavior06]

i am mostly upset by the lack of respect that first has given us animators, we put in more hours of work than the students who built the robot only to have a guy from autodesk stand there talk fast and disregard quite how much work was put into inventor, and visualization.

they also eliminated the honorable mentions, which recognized many of the teams which had done very well and yet weren't exactly what every judge liked.

excellent content communication and slick presentation to 967! I'm not trying to bash u guys at all.

i am also just wondering how much work you all put into your animations. For us it was at least like a couple hundred hours a person.

one more thing i noticed was that the "random" matches were less random than ever, we were teamed with/against the same group of teams the entire competition, i saw the same about 18 robots the whole competition.

lastly, was it just me, or is it upsetting to anyone else how the competition is turning into a spectator "battlebots" type of competition basically, every year the competition is less and less complex and rely more on speed and power, than skill to manipulate field objects. also, they are focusing more and more on winning, which i believe should be more of a side goal to the learning and inspiration that first is founded upon.

I must say that every team did extremely great jobs this year, i was amazed how great even all the rookie teams were.