I just hope the field parts are reasonably easy to build/obtain without FIRST's help. The reason?
Last year we bought a field and didn't recieve the parts until the night before our first competition. One of the many reasons why we spectacularly failed that day.
But otherwise, I'm looking forward to this game. Yeah, it is similar to QQ but it's different in enough aspects that it's going to be a radically different game, and there's plenty of good defensive options if you look hard enough. (Hint: it's not just grabbing your opponent's pucks, it's what you do with them...
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Also, big hoppers are going to be great, but being able to pick pucks off the floor reasonably fast and distinguish their color is key. If you can't do that, all the other alliance has to do is spill your racks to destroy you.