Significance of the Human Player

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It's clear that the human player has a huge role in the game this time, more important than in the past few years. There are also many similarities in what the human player has to do and what a basketball player does. Considering how Dean Kamen has talked about how the allure of professional sports has been drawing students away from the "important" things, is this an attempt at revenge, drawing more athletes into FIRST?