Thread: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!
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Re: 2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!
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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
Nope.

Stack Attack very very very quickly devolved into a game of destroying the opposing alliances stacks and becoming king of the hill, at all costs. Wedges were legal as long as you didn't actively lift them. Flipping was common. Destruction was great. It's kinda like battlebots from the point of view of the boxes, and a giant mess from the point of view of everyone else.

A match video of Stack Attack, courtesy of Andy Baker. 111 will win the championship by sitting on the ramp for the entire match.
FUN FACTS ABOUT STACK ATTACK:

2003 was 1114's rookie year.
1114 was one of the only teams that actually built a working stackerbot. I can't help but wonder if this experience of missing the game analysis helped drive them to become the powerhouse they are today.
StangPS was WAY ahead of its time. Most teams still today lack a system as powerful as StangPS was, back when we had the BASICStamp 2sx's which only gave 26 bytes of user variable memory IIRC.