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Re: Is Stronghold the roughest game yet?
Not sure if it's been the roughest game on the robots of all time, but, as others have alluded to above, taken into account the damage that has also occurred to field elements (balls, original low bar), I think the total carnage produced by this year's game has to be up towards the top of the list. I think the best example of this was at the Suffield Shakedown. Because the event did not end up getting access to an official FIRST field, we were stuck with using wooden defenses for the event. I'm pretty sure that by the end of the day, there were more defenses in the graveyard than there were on the field...
I'd still say that Aerial Assist was a little more violent on the bots than Stronghold. The rules regarding defenses and the inability to use the full length of the field to rev up to full speed before slamming into another robot appeared to have made the potential for damage smaller. At the very lest, this year, it seems like damage that occurs to the robots can be more often attributed to the driver, not the effects of other drivers (not to say that the latter is never the case though).
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