Back to Defense for a minute.

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Posted by Kyle Fenton at 04/27/2001 11:45 PM EST


Student on team #121, Islanders, from Middletown High School and NUWC.


In Reply to: Back to Defense for a minute.
Posted by Andy Grady on 04/27/2001 8:11 PM EST:



From all of the posts that I have seen, I see that the
majority of people wants head-on competition.

Now, the only way we are going to re-achieve head
on competition, is if we say, as the majority of
FIRST that we want it.

And that is one of reasons that Team 121 is setting
up this petition. To tell FIRST, what the people
want. I mean FIRST is very very, open to
suggestions. Probably the most open than any
other organization of this size that I know of.

Now, just because their is an option of 2v2, doesn't
mean we are going to turn into Battlebots or
Robtica. Not at all, we can still maintain a high
respect for Gracious Professionals, while playing a
very interesting game of 2v2.

Now last year in 2000, FIRST actually got a good
idea. That the winners get 3x the losers score. So
the main objective was trying to score as much as
you can, but scoring for your opponent, if they
couldn't do it. The best score last year was trying to
get a 1 point ahead of your competition. And that
benefits you and your competition.