What do you think of the design of the game?

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Originally Posted by Katy

FIRST should be commended for doing an excellent job in designing a field that low-budget teams can easily emulate even with severe space and budgetary constraints.

Well that's my two cents. What do you all think?

I agree with a lot of what you said; it was very insightful and well-written. Although there are a lot of changes which I would have preffered the old way, I think that the new game is a nice change, and that FIRST did a good job coming up with something new and exciting.

However... I disagree with the part of your post which I quoted above. It is hard to build the field if you are short on space; the center divider is 27 feet long, the overpass is 27 feet across, and it's 6.5 feet high. That's pretty hard to build and store if you don't have much space to work with. Back in Aim High, we had trouble finding a place for a cut-out sheet propped upright for a corner goal, a half ramp, and a high goal top half... and those are a lot smaller than the overpass/divider. Given, you don't have to build the whole overpass/divider... so maybe I'm wrong.