Jamie From Mythbusters Interview

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by Kevin Watson

Please enlighten the clueless. How is BattlebotsIQ bad for you?

-Kevin

besides basically ripping other robots apart, yes i know there is a lot of engineering involved with that, and teams do build apon each other, creating better drive trains, upgrading their weaponary, and changing other stuff around on their robot, they don't face the challenges that FIRST teams do. FIRST challenges teams to do that, and more. The game changes vastly each year rather than being pretty much the same with some minor tweaks and such. They both are great, theres no doubt and that, but BBIQ dpesn't challenge you in the same way FIRST does. I don't know if i'm getting my point accross, but what i'm trying to say is FIRST has more variation, rather than a consistant game. And variation over time leads to more innovation, which makes the world better.

But BBIQ is not bad for you, both provide an engineering and design experince thats tough to beat, and i may have been a little over the top in my statement earlier.

However i will say both games are missing one somewhat large part of the whole engineering experince, Hydraulics.