G14 Match Impact

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by OScubed

I think G14 is from last year's game and you should stop worrying about it and concentrate on building your team for next year. In real life (IE when you go to apply your engineering skills to tasks in industry) there will be constraints on all sorts of things - many of which may or may not be "fair" or even "intelligent". You must learn to either work around them or use them to your advantage - preferably a bit of both. Rules like G14 fall into the category of a learning experience. So learn from it and move on, because next year the rules will be different and there will be some other constraint you don't like. And when you get to the real world the number of constraints you DON'T like may well outnumber the ones you do

The complaints both for and against G14 are well known and I'm sure FIRST will take that into account when building next year's rule set. But since the game may be entirely different a G14 like rule might not even be appropriate. Concentrate on learning new stuff, filled with positive energy and G14 will fade into the background just like your 2nd grade math final - how many of you actually remember that?

I don't really think it's a waste to do this analysis, it could potentially teach a lot of people a valuable lesson (not to make a big stink over something they don't know for sure is bad).

I'm pretty curious how much of an impact it had, because I believe it to be minimal.