Granted I've only experienced the 2013 and 2014 seasons, but I'd really like to see the end game come back. It adds an extra challenge for teams and an element of excitement to the end of a game, especially if the alliance scores are close.

The end game element is a bit 'easier' for higher-level teams or bigger teams because of experience or dividing-and-conquering, but my rookie team was even able to rig up a 10-point hang for those extra points in Ultimate Ascent, which really came in handy when our shooter wasn't working.

The problem with an end game in a team-based challenge like Aerial Assist is that if one team focuses mainly on the end-game, the alliance as a whole loses out on a whole ton of points because that one robot isn't involved in the main game scoring. I'm thinking about robots that would take the entire match to climb to the 30 on the pyramid in 2013... In a team based game like Aerial Assist, are those points really worth it compared to the points that could be earned if they played the main game?

(...maybe the end game should come back just to make teams really think about that question.)