Bringing Rules Back

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

All I say to many of the ideas posed for bringing back this or that rule is this: The CASUAL FAN is the standard we should judge everything by.

While WE all love this or that complex strategy, such things generally are huge confusion factors for the casual fan.

Bottom line: if it confuses my mom, it is bad for FIRST.

That says it all in my book.

Joe J.

Joe and I have been agreeing on this issue for the past 5 years on this forum, and I gotta agree with him again. If (and when) FIRST gives us a game that EVERYONE can understand, then everything will fall into place. More teams will want to join, peers who are not on the team will understand the program better, television will become interested in FIRST again, sponsors will be easier to get, cancer will be cured, the Israelis and Palestineians will live in harmony, and we will have world peace.

Well, a guy can dream, can't he?

Andy B.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Joe and I have been agreeing on this issue for the past 5 years on this forum, and I gotta agree with him again. If (and when) FIRST gives us a game that EVERYONE can understand, then everything will fall into place. More teams will want to join, peers who are not on the team will understand the program better, television will become interested in FIRST again, sponsors will be easier to get, cancer will be cured, the Israelis and Palestineians will live in harmony, and we will have world peace.

Well, a guy can dream, can't he?

Andy B.

And if you play the Kick-Off backwards, durring Dean Kamen's speech he says, "Complexity is dead. Long live inflatable clowns." I understood the first thing, but the clowns?

As for the multiplyer, I think that the time one would be bad to bring back, but instead do something that FLL does. Make it so that if a team fails to do a task, or does something wrong, they take away a multiplyer point. In FLL it was a ball in the middle of the field. If the robot had to be brought manualy back to the start point, they would remove one multiplyer ball. There were three at the start.