2001 Not a Great Spectator Sport?

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Posted by Steve Alaniz at 03/11/2001 3:29 PM EST


Other on team #57 from Houston Regional co-ordinator.


In Reply to: 2001 Not a Great Spectator Sport?
Posted by Lora Knepper on 03/11/2001 2:59 PM EST:



Lora~

You found it boring? TERRIFIC! That sounds sarcastic
but I assure you I'm serious. The last thing I'd want
to see come out of F.I.R.S.T. is a bunch of robotic
couch potatoes. People who are motivated enough to
participate in F.I.R.S.T. are "Do-ers" not "Watch-ers."
It speaks well for your group that you are driven to be
involved.
I admit it takes a lot of patience to watch all the
rounds, but there's a certain dicipline involved in
watching the same routines and attempting to learn what
is possible and what is not and if you're really
perceptive, to discover,"what has been missed?"
Personally, I find televised football, basketball,
baseball...all the televised sports... boring because
I'M not playing in the game. Thank goodness for
commercials!
OK, there is ONE thing about this game that is good
but adds to the idea it's boring...the co-operation.
In the past, you could watch to see if that robot who
rammed, belted, twisted or otherwise distroyed YOUR
robot would get their comeuppance...consider this game
the "moral" highground.. (Yeah I know... I'm laughing
too.. but hey, that's what I do for a living!!!!)


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