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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
I completely agree. I think the biggest problem with this game was the one demensionality of it. There was really one scoring system that teams had to choose from and build--some way to hurdle. Yes, some teams did build hurders and pure lap robots, but not many of those teams made eliminations at the Championship (besides 148, who was picked last, were there any others?). Last year, there was two main ways to scores--rings and ramps, and we saw two drastically different types of robots that were both equally important and vauled. At the end this year, laps bots that just did laps, were almost pointless, because many of the top scorers were just as fast and got just as many laps while getting a ton of hurdling points. To make an impact, these lap bots had to play defense, which is something teams that build arm or shooters could do too.
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I myself never had a problem with diversity in the last two years, yet with what may be the most popular game in FIRST (Aim High) every robot looked the same, yet people didn't care, and it was the game most talked about. Also there were only three ways to score in that game as well, same with 2005, same with 2004 (I may be wrong about 2004, I wasn't around for it

) so talking about how one dimensional this game was, isn't right. The game that had the least ways to score was last year, not this year, and every other game before that, only had three ways to score anyways (whether it was worth a lot or not).
I myself loved how different the robots were this year, although there were many that looked very similar (121's design mainly) there was always something different about them (our drive system was completely different than 121's

) but really besides the fact that 121 showed a really simple design mid build season, and everyone saw how it worked and went "wow.. thats way better than how I would of done that" or "wow, our design is pretty close to that, but the way they did this and this, is much simplier" is the only reason there are so many roller claws, other than that, there are a billion different designs this year!
Edit: 2002 also only had three ways to score!