What changes to this year's game...?

[DougHogg]

Originally posted by "Big Mike"
What i would change to this year's game, well Nothing, its done, nothing can be changed about it, a wise man once said to me, What is done is done and it cant be changed. ehh this might tick people off, but this is the way i feel, come find me, AIM,Email,Yahoo,MSN

You have a point. We can't change this year's game, so there is little point in complaining to FIRST about it.

(Also it seems like Team 25's robot was pretty suited to this year's game. If I was in your shoes, I might not be thinking about how to enhance this year's game at this point either. And by the way, I would love to replay the Houston finals without any circuit breakers popping. I want to see what happens without breakers interferring. For that matter, I would like to replay the 2002 game without Team 64's breaker popping.)

Anyway, the point of this thread is not to complain. Making a new game every year is tough, and as far as I am concerned, FIRST did an awesome job of coming up with Stack Attack. I am just greedy. I want a better game next year, and I think this thread might help that occur.

A philopher named George Santayana said,

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Anyway the point of this exercise is to see if with hindsight, there was a way to reward making stacks and other skills, so that those skills would have been valuable in the game, and therefore used more. I, for one, wish that teams like 365 were more rewarded for their efforts in designing great stackers. And I know there were a lot of other great stackers that I didn't see. That is the point. They weren't in the finals, even though they had this incredible ability.

Anyway, really we are just brainstorming for any ideas that would have improved this year's game, with the viewpoint of using those ideas in the future. Probably that is part of what is going to occur at the team forums anyway, so this is a way to get a headstart on coming up with some ideas to present to FIRST before they design next year's game.