Anybody really dis-like the game?

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I don't like it right now.

But games grow on you. I didn't like rack n roll at all at first, but some plays were kinda fun.

07 was great, the end game was so much better than 08, 06, or 05, robots lifting each other up, a spoiler going up at the last second, 2007 was my second favorite game for as long as i've been in FIRST (04 tops the list, you can't beat bots hanging from a bar.... or 61 trying to block bots hanging while hanging themselves...)

Originally Posted by DeepWater

Your bare minimum may just be some other team's best effort. Everyone deserves to be rewarded when they work hard and do the best they can don't they?



Really? That sounds pretty elitist to me. I feel the opposite. FIRST is for everyone. You do the best you can with what you have and hopefully everyone leaves with more than they came with.



Easy for a Michigan team to say I suppose. Anytime you want to come on down to a small Mississippi town and bring some big corporate sponsors with deep pockets with you we would be happy to have you. We are known as the Hospitality State.



Because every student deserves the opportunity to experiance FIRST, not just the students that live in areas flush with big corporate sponsors.



You are kidding right? FIRST is all about teaching! Professional mentors teaching students how to solve a problem to the best of their collective ability given the tools available and within the constraints placed on the solution. It is not about who can build the shiniest, fanciest, most sophisticated robot using the most expensive CNC equipment they can find. If you have that resource great, if not that's fine as well. FIRST should be for everyone. I could have sworn that I had seen one or two of the hundreds of thousands of FIRST students over the last (almost) two decades learning something useful. I'm sorry you fell you weren't one of them. I suspect your corporate sponsors would be sorry to hear the money they invested in you must have been wasted as well because I'm pretty sure the whole reason corporations invest in FIRST is because they fell it better prepares their future work force by TEACHING students real world lessons.



Agreed but that is just one of many things that FIRST "is all about".



FIRST = For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. Inspiration and Recognition comes in many forms and on many levels. If a team (rookie or vet) can only build a box on wheels but they learned even a little something along the way why is that a bad thing? At least they built SOMETHING. I have run across many people that couldn't figure out how to get themselves out of a hole in the ground if you gave them a pile of 2x4s, handsaw, hammer, and a box of nails.

As far as the main thread topic, I love the game and thank the GDC for leveling the playing field in such a elegant way. I also love the Moon theme and the tribute to the 40th anniversary of the FIRST lunar landing!

excelent points

im not sure how i feel about the game, im teamless right now (well, semi-945ish but thats a 2-hr bus ride for me ) I think i'll have to wait until week one of the regionals to decide if truly do like this game (scrimmages are on valentines day if im correct and i might be busy that day...)

P.S. DeepWater, what are these "deep pockets" you speak of, last time i checked, some companies from MI were in DC asking for some $$$ ?