What was the best FRC game POLL

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

Who the heck voted for that 2009 game?!

Better question, why is it in the poll? I could have sworn there wasn't an FRC game in 2009.

[indubitably]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

Who the heck voted for that 2009 game?!

While I'm sure most of the votes aren't serious, I could see how some people might like it. I still find myself looking back at the robot designs from that year since they were all so varied. Also, while the majority of the match was robots slowly sliding around, excitement would build in anticipation of a big score or whenever a super cell was introduced.

I soured on it pretty quickly because of how much an HP could score on the trailer of a robot not paying attention or not showing up. Because of that, I have had it at the bottom of my list for quite some time but the more I think about it the more I feel like moving it up, at least a little bit.

[IndySam]

Lunacy was a blast behind the glass and terrible for spectators.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Monochron

I think a lot of the issues cleared up as the season went along. Also the level of top play developed to be very interesting in the later weeks but was a bit lackluster at the start. Remember, a couple of rule additions help to sooth the hate after kickoff and after build season.

I agree, I voted for Aerial Assist as my favorite game because I think it developed into the best FRC game. From the first event to the last off-season the game got better and better and stayed interesting both to play and to watch. AA was definitely better at championship and off-seasons when the overall quality of robots improved. At early regionals a non-moving or absent robot made for poor matches.

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by Basel A

I know a few people who really liked Lunacy, but that group is wholly contained within the group of people I know whose teams did really well.

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

Better question, why is it in the poll? I could have sworn there wasn't an FRC game in 2009.

FRC 233 The Pink Team won the Orlando Regional in 2009, their 2014 release video showed all their robots since 2003 since they seem to follow the same logic as Nick lol

[EricH]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

Better question, why is it in the poll? I could have sworn there wasn't an FRC game in 2009.

Funny, I could say the same about the '01 game or lack thereof.



Real question: Why is this not a multi-answerable poll? There are so many good games out there, it's really hard to pick JUST ONE.

[asid61]

I actually had to pick 2015. The design challenge was really good, and driver practice was much easier. Had they made the cans worth less I would have liked it more.

[IKE]

2005 just does not get the respect it deserves....

[GeeTwo]

I answered based on the four games I've been involved in: Rebound Rumble to Recycle Rush. Of these, I felt that Ultimate Ascent was the best because it had a relatively low level of entry to play at all (rookie bots with just a drive system and some creatively cut plywood scored low frisbees and got on the first rung), a wide variety of effective strategies at the middle and high ends. Many of the robots which were built, winners and runners-up, and also-rans, could serve as textbook examples of "engineering tradeoffs". And the only thing that really needed to be explained to a spectator was the relative value of each type of score.

[Richard Wallace]

The top five vote-getters* (2013, 2014, 2012, 2006, 2004) suggest that we enjoy:

• shooting projectiles, and
  
• hanging our robots from field elements.

I predict the 2016 game will feature both.

*These five account for ~82% of responses so far.

[sagi34]

I experienced only 2013-2015 games, but I will rate all the games since 2003 in my opinion.
1. Ultimate Ascent (2013)
2. Rebound Rumble (2012)
3. Aim High (2006)
4. Aerial Assist (2014)
5. FIRST Frenzy: Raising the Bar (2004)
6. Breakaway (2010)
7. Rack 'n Roll (2007)
8. Triple Play (2005)
9. Recycle Rush (2015)
10. FIRST Overdrive (2008)
11. Logomotion (2011)
12. Lunacy (2009)
13. Stack Attack (2003)

I realy feel like Recycle Rush is just a much better version of Stack Attack.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by IKE

2005 just does not get the respect it deserves....

Neither does 2007

[AWoL]

Originally Posted by Taylor

mecchuananium

The 119th element?

[Anthony Galea]

I've built since 2013, and spectated since 2010, so I will rank since then with a (completely arbitrary) score out of 10. This is just my opinion (obviously).

2014 Aerial Assist: 9.5: Just loved this game. A lot of strategy involved, many ways to score, and much more possibility for upsets. It would be a 10 if it weren't for the excessive fouls.
2013 Ultimate Ascent: 8.5: Pretty good game, exciting to watch, only problems being low possibility for upset especially in less deep events, and the remarkably low points for the 30 point climb.
2012 Rebound Rumble: 8.5: its basically Ultimate Ascent with bridges and basketball and vice versa.
2010 Breakaway: 7: Exciting to watch at high levels, but painfully boring when nobody could score goals.
2011 LogoMotion: 5: Really a bore to watch at all levels.
2015 Recycle Rush: 2: I did not like this game one bit. Horribly unbalanced towards the cans, the removal of defense made a bad game worse because the only real strategy was: Grab cans, stack fast. Really boring to watch after the first second of play on Einstein. Only thing preventing it from being a 1 was that it was a real world application (kinda, when are you going to stack recycling bins on totes?).

[Briansmithtown]

I personally liked 2009... it was my rookie year (even tho I graduated in 2014) and I fell in love with FIRST through there.