[ComradeNikolai]

I tried out a few various gamepads this year while we were still in the testing phase of our robot and, due to my lack of understanding of C at the time, we had no ramping function (I actually got it added the day before ship -- our driver was very thankful), and so joysticks afforded the greatest control over the robot.

I also agree with Eric: game pads just don't look as good as joysticks.