[DanL]

I don't like how it basically IS previous years' games. Veteran teams that have done the hanging-from-a-bar game and teams that have played 2002 soccer-balls-in-goals game well (*looks at RAGE*) have an enormous advantage - all they need to do is take their previous mechanisms and put them on a new robot. Yeah, RAGE can't use their ultra-efficient ball-dumper again because of that only-human-player-puts-balls-in rule, but teams like them do know what's going to work in terms of goal manipulation and such.

FIRST said they were trying to make it attractive to rookies to some extent - I think they did exactly the opposite: the veteran teams that have played the games 2, 3, 4 years ago HAVE DONE all of the elements of this game before - unlike the veterans, rookies have no idea what works and what doesn't. I was expecting FIRST to be a bit more creative.

Thumbs down.