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

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Posted by Raul at 1/6/2001 2:42 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: Re: Perplexed
Posted by Mike Aubry on 1/6/2001 1:14 PM EST:



The sad part, in my opinion, is that this year's game will move us farther away from what the typical game watcher wants to see.

1) The scoring is too complex - the normal person will not know what the heck is going on. Now tell me how long it will take to explain to your grandmother how the scoring works?

2) Who won? Yeah, yeah we are all winners. But since you are not competing against anyone, it will be very boring to watch this year's game!!! All we have to go by is our satisfaction of completing some tasks as required. How many seeding matches can any of us take when their is no winner at the end of the match?

3) In the elimination rounds, when in the past things got really exciting, it just will not be the same to have to wait to see how the other team does to determine if you won or lost!

4) Say good bye to any team who liked to be defensive. Who needs a robust design anymore? Who needs an agile robot to get around your opponent? The game has become nothing more that a strategy contest. Close to becoming a science fair - which Dean says it is not.

Raul