Was Aerial Assist Better than Ultimate Ascent?

[JesseK]

If despair.com came up with a Demotivator related to FIRST, it would involve bad partners vs good opponents during qualification rounds of Aerial Assist. I suppose it would snark on the single good offensive robot being double-teamed or sandwiched in between two opponents while the two mediocre partners were shut down by a single great opponent.

However, I have yet to coach a single FRC game quite like Aerial Assist. In a single match where both alliances came out with 200+ points match we played 4 different roles and had a great time doing it.

IMO, Ultimate Ascent was still the best combination of engineering challenge and inspirational game play. Plus there weren't so many beat up robots at the end of a Regional