RACK & ROLL Reaction

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Jane

I'm thinking this game will be a crowd pleaser.
Easy to understand, wonderfully visual. Drama, excitement, collaboration oh my!

I think this will be a great year to invite folks to come see FIRST in action and share in the fun - the teams will be rocking. Go GDC!

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Scoring is horrible to keep up with.
Not that great since if you are lucky you can see 5 sides at most, there is NO drama or excitement because it is a quick game not enough time for anything to happen besides a few bumps with bots.. No tipping expected until bonus.

Pavan.

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Pavan, please consult my earlier post in this thread for differences between this and the 1997 game, Toroid Terror. Even though both game used inner tubes and placed them onto poles, the strategies and robots will not be similar. Because robots could hold multiple tubes in 97, and the human players were granted much more freedom to interact with the robots, manipulators will have to be different than most of them in 97. Many of the competitive teams in 1997 didn't even attempt to load directly from the floor to their robots, but would push the tubes to their HP and have them load the tubes. A couple teams couldn't even score on the center tower at all, and just pushed tubes to their HP to let them score on it (it was far easier to throw tubes onto that goal, as their was to player station wall like there is now). While these may sound like minor differences, they greatly impacted robot design.

Honestly, it is not the fact that they changed a FEW concepts of the game. It is still the same game to a degree. No matter what you do you are still putting tubes on poles. The fact of the matter is that they had around seven months to develop a challenging UNIQUE game yet they chose to modify an old one. That is my "beef" with FIRST.

Pavan.