Crazy NEW Idea!

[Yan Wang]

I think it'd be a popularity contest. You get to see great matches at the Championship event regardless of a people's choice event. All the cool robots that people like usually end up in the elimination rounds.

[Billfred]

I like the idea, if there were a way to implement it so that larger teams (cough)s.p.a.m.(cough) don't drown out smaller teams (cough)1293(cough) at competitions.

The one question arises: What about teams that we think are cool, but not in Atlanta? I admit, I liked 433's robot last year, but they couldn't go to Atlanta. That would be a problem.

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by Billfred

I like the idea, if there were a way to implement it so that larger teams (cough)s.p.a.m.(cough) don't drown out smaller teams (cough)1293(cough) at competitions.

The one question arises: What about teams that we think are cool, but not in Atlanta? I admit, I liked 433's robot last year, but they couldn't go to Atlanta. That would be a problem.

I wonder, if in a case like that, if we couldn't have one similar at IRI or other off-season competitions? I also think it would be fun to have an all rookie "Peoples Choice" round. It probably wouldn't be 24 teams but still great practice for them to get better.

-Kyle

[pakrat]

Two things:

1. Of course it would be a popularity contest, its the PEOPLES CHOICE matches!!!! This would rock, lets get a 600-team coalition to put it together

2. Its hard to decide on a team you've never seen. We would need to have like a 1 minute highlight tape for each robot, and then the coalition described above would veiw these, and vote for their top 20 or so, and the top 24 would go to the peoples choice. WE could put in the top 36, and then have a questions round, where people have to answer questions about the robot or something.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Yan Wang

I think it'd be a popularity contest. You get to see great matches at the Championship event regardless of a people's choice event. All the cool robots that people like usually end up in the elimination rounds.

I can think of at least a dozen teams off the top of my head, that I would like to see compete against one another - and all of them are probably the same that come to everyone else's mind too. Afterall, popularity and reputation, of both the good and bad variety, usually build up for a reason.