Favorite FIRST Game

[Karthik]

It's all about 1999, by far the most dynamic game in FIRST history. You had this 6" high (iirc) octagon on caster wheels, with a couple of metal poles sicking up, known as the "puck" that could be dragged around the field. Alliances were awarded multipliers if the puck was on a certain side of the field. But to make things even cooler, you were awarded multipliers if your robot was on the puck. Wait, it gets better. The definition of being on the puck was to be touching it, and be 2" off the ground. So some teams would grab the pole, and lift themselves off the ground.

I've only talked about multipliers, how did teams score points? Well the scoring objects were these disc shaped pillows known as "floppies". You had one point for every floppy of your colour not touching the ground, and 3 points for each floppy of your colour that was at least 8' off the ground at the end of the match,

So picture this, you have robots pulling the puck. You have robots climbing the puck. You have tug of wars for the puck. Teams pushing teams off the puck. To make it even cooler, at the end of the match, you have all these baskets of floppies being raised over 8' in the air, while teams are being pushed! It was a phenomenal game. The best ever.