Next year: Make the game understandable

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Posted by Sean Kim, Student on team #115 from Monta Vista High School and NASA Ames.

Posted on 5/2/99 10:31 PM MST


In Reply to: Next year: Make the game understandable posted by Andy Baker on 5/1/99 11:18 PM MST:



Hmm...
I know.
i think so too.
Well, I thought so at first.

But then, I realized that most teams participate in the FIRST are really smart and etc.

That means that the teams are able to make robots that are very strong and multi-taskable (is that a word?).
If we make the game simpler and easier, almost all the robots in the competition is going to do well.
In that case, this 'luck' is going to be the factor. well, bigger than how big we want it to be, for sure.

I do know that some people might argue that 'understandable' doesn't always mean that game itself can be simpler.
But you know...I just don't want to see 400 same robots that can potentially score perfect rounds.
Look at this year's competition.
Despite its complexibility(is that a word?), you saw basically 5-6 designs on the field.
Only few had unique designs.
We had unique design...we had an arm..It looked really cool except it didn't do much. Our robot lookws so much different from other teams'.
RoboBears had a cool design.

I hope I am getting my meaning through.

kison