Team Update #9

[Mr_I]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Call me old, but back in the day (2003 comes to mind) the game was a much more aggressive smash 'em crash 'em style. Robots had to be built tough to survive, and it was quite fun at times (at these for those who knew the meaning of robustness). Bumpers were optional back then, and most went without.

As I recall, 2006 (Aim High) was the first year of optional bumpers; before that it was all metal on metal, as you said. 2003 (Stack Attack) was the roughest of the years I've seen, the closest it ever got to BattleBots, and I think the universal reaction was "No, we don't want to go there anymore."