[JABot67]

I liked the 2008 and 2010 games the best, and Breakaway just wouldn't have been Breakaway without 469's game breaker robot. I really liked the game from the beginning, but I really enjoyed the extra unintended challenge of dealing with a robot that could score balls continuously.

I don't like Rebound Rumble as much despite some exciting matches. The eliminations at Kettering hardly involved any interaction between alliances! No competition for balls, no defense, nothing. In autonomous mode we could get 36 points without the other alliance being able to do anything about it, so of course we tried for that. Some alliances at our event and others went for three robots on a bridge. That's 40 points that the other alliance almost can't interfere with! (although I hear at Alamo there was some strategy aimed at preventing a 3 robot bridge balance.) Shooting from the key in teleop insulates you from defense. How would you like a basketball game that was just free throws?

Most teams wouldn't bother crossing to the other side to retrieve balls because human players could throw them through the inbounding station in such a way that they would bounce over the barrier anyway.

Where is the robot-on-robot interaction? Sure, the game encourages a huge amount of teamwork within alliances, but at a cost of inter-alliance action.