Competition.....or touchy feely happy bonding time?

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Posted by Jon at 1/6/2001 8:39 PM EST


Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Mass Academy of Math and Science and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.


In Reply to: Re: Competition.....or touchy feely happy bonding time?
Posted by Dan on 1/6/2001 12:23 PM EST:



: Dean has never been about lowering to the common denominator, he chooses to raise the bar instead. So, yes, this game won't get FIRST on primetime TV right away, but Dean doesn't believe the quickest path (ie BattleBots) is always the best.

I have to agree on the raising of the bar... I got lost quickly as I watched the webcast (our network was spotty so the sound kept acting up) when the scoring was being discussed... multipliers and time based multipliers and percentages and then everyone works together?! where's the blood? you know... comes with the sweat and tears...

In Qualis it'll be easy to tell who "wins" by the location of the big balls but I liken this game to Olympic Sports... Who can get down a rafting course fastest? Who can jump the furthest? Who can shoot more clays? In these sports, the competitors do not play at the same time but instead try to best each other.
That looks like it was the inspiration to me.