Thoughts on This Year's Game

[M.O'Reilly]

Gotta say it's a great spectator game. I fully expected this to be my favorite game yet. End game kind of ruined it though. Outside of a few spectacular climb/shoot robots, disc scoring and 10 point hang make the game very predictable. Autonomous is very telling of who will win the match. Will Einstein be fun to watch? Of course, it always is. But I have very little interest in watching tons of webcasts because more than 50% of the robots turned into the same thing, unforunately. I'm sure there are other debates on CD whether watching webcasts and open bag hours stifle creativity, but that's not my point here. Just that this game promised so much, and so far: if you are a full court shooter, you have a giant target on your back; if you are a 30 point climber, you'd better be able to do more than that; and if you are a human loading shooter, you'd better be the fastest. Otherwise, you can get lost in the shuffle.