What will FRC 2016 Stronghold be remembered by?

[Roboshant]

I personally think this year will be remembered as the year of fouls. Being that the finals of Einstein were decided on a foul, and the 254, 1241, 708 red card match with 55 total points worth of fouls. What do you think?

[scooty199]

2056's unbreakable streak being broken.

Also the controversial decision to let foul points be tiebreakers.

[AquaMorph]

Originally Posted by Roboshant

I personally think this year will be remembered as the year of fouls. The finals of Einstein being decided on a foul, to the 254, 1241, 708 red card match with 55 total points worth of fouls. What do you think?

This was my favorite game FRC has had since Ultimate Ascent. I feel like it was close to being the best game ever but the amount of red cards in eliminations changed that opinion for me. It seems the rules were applied differently depending on the out come of the match. Which feels just wrong. That being said I don't think the fouls took too much away from the game. It was always a fun game to watch.

[samthesnake]

I agree on the year of the fouls. With 1678 and 148 in our field, we genuinely thought they would have an epic cheesecake and make this the year of the cheesecake. Congrats to all the Einstein teams as it was truly incredible to watch.

[pmangels17]

I'll remember it as a fantastic recovery from the 2015 game, and consider it an extension of the GDC's excellent streak that started in 2010 (some would argue 2012) for fantastic games. Stronghold has been an absolute blast to watch. It's design challenges were unique, and the Stronghold game produced a diverse field of creative designs to play the game. So many different and wonderful strategies and robots came from this game. The vision challenge was actually really meaningful and impactful this year. The finals were exciting at both the district/regional and championship level. The game was complex and nuanced, yet I could still explain it to someone in a couple sentences. The theming was actually really fun, and it was great to see the teams who ran with it all the way. In my mind, FIRST Stronghold was a gleaming success for FRC. I won't remember it as the year of fouls. There are fouls every year (2014) but that didn't detract from the overall fantastic gameplay that Stronghold provided.

[Jared Russell]

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[The other Gabe]

^^^

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

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Same

[trumpthero786]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

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This

People will forget the specifics about fouls; they will just become a thing that happened. Streaks? Nah. New ones will be made and others broken. But this? This will live on forever in the world of FIRST.

[Carl C]

Last Championship event before the "championsplit".

[kristinweiss]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

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Definitely this!

[Roboshant]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

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Video: http://oddshot.tv/shot/frcgamesense-20160430231114184

Thanks to ricar144 from team 865 on reddit FRC

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

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This and 330's crazy flipping skills in the Semis.

[ghostmachine360]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

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New policy: #FIRSTUncensored

[natejo99]

The "Carver Curse" was broken.