Who likes this years challenge?

[Alex Cormier]

please search, there are many threads out there with a discussion to this years game.

[Steve Howland]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

please search, there are many threads out there with a discussion to this years game.

A good example of one such thread

And I think you guys need to give this game a chance. It's been one week, and already you guys think we will only see one or two stock robot types. The GDC worked really hard on this game and I think it will be awesome.

[Tri_Lam]

its a good game but it could be better. my first impression was. 'thats it? we only have one huge game element and bunch of rings.' after reading the rules you see how challenging the game really is. and how a single placement of a spoiler can change the whole game/outcome. overall a 7 outa 10 good game could be better

[Justin M.]

I understand how hard they worked on this years game, it just doesn't compare to Aim High. It's not fast paced, and like I said, its more mental than anything.

I guess they had to give us this type of game, to change things up a bit. I can understand that. If they created a game similar to Aim High, then the rookie teams this year would be at a even greater disadvantage than the veteran teams who are familiar with last years game....I just wish it was a bit more exciting and "sport like".

Comparing Aim High to Rack n' Roll, in simpler terms, would be comparing Basketball to Tic Tac Toe. Which one would you rather build a robot to do...

[65_Xero_Huskie]

This years game is kind of simple compared to the other games because its pretty much already been done (1997). The whole 1 ring at a time makes it kind of boring because you dont have the promise of teams (such as beatty or wildstang) grabbing 12 at a time and scoring them all in 2.3 seconds
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I also think that this year is going to be interesting and it gives a fair chance for anyone to win unlike last year where you almost needed a camera to do good ( tripletts are an enemy to that theory ). I really hope that there is good support for this years game because every year is fun and you get the feeling of teamwork and planning which helps you get ready for other things in life.

[TravisE]

I don't know i find this game to be alot about strategy but that doesn't mean the robots have to be simple there could be some very complicated desgins out there because as everyone knows ther are going to be teams ou there who will be trying to score and raise two bots and i would really like to see some of those bots because there is no doubt in my mind that those bots will look amazing

[Ansem Retort]

I'm in a rookie team and we watched the vids from last years competition. I thought, "Oh, shooting balls into a hoop. Pretty simple." Then they unveiled this year's and I thought "Holy crap!!!"
I commend NASA for their ingenuity...and sense of humor.

I also can't wait to see some of the designs for getting these 'bots off the floor. Thing is you can't really plan how well you can do it 'cuz you don't who's on you're alliance unitil after it's finished. I have a feeling these 'bots will have to be very adaptable to the situation.

[Kyle A]

I didn't like the game at kickoff. But, it is slowly getting better, the game has more strategy to it. And we really won't know how the game really is until we get to the competition. Like in 2005 when we thought that the strategy would be to cap the highest, but it was really how fast you could cap. In less than 2 months we will find out, hopefully this game will get better. I also don't think it will be an easy game for spectators to understand. Last year was exiting to watch, and it was entertaining, this year i feel won't be as good, but i could be wrong.

[astephen68]

It gives more of a chance to other teams yeah by your shooting balls last year with 3 or more this year your only are alould to pick up 1 ringer and score it. The key is to how fast your going to score it!

[KingBK]

Out of the years that I've been affiliated with Team 1279(which is the past 3 years.) This is the worst out of all of them but it is still a pretty good game. My favorite is still the tetra game but I ain't complaining about this one.

[astephen68]

What was the Tetra game about??

[VEN]

You HAD to discover the poll function didn't you lol

I think everyone should spend more time building the robots than expressing our thoughts about everything else.

Fun or no fun, we won't find out until the competitions start, I like a good challenge, and there's more to it than just simple this year

[astephen68]

lol

[Gertlex]

I think this year's game has the potential to be pretty interesting. I always find the methods for game piece manipulation to be the most interesting feature of a year's robots. This year with ringers looks to be interesting, especially since we're provided with the vacuum (though my team judged that to be impractical).

Earlier a comment was made about there being two types of bots: scorers and scorer pushers; and furthermore made it sound like this was a new thing. Pardon me, but that's the exact definition of many many matches I saw last year.

Originally Posted by astephen68

lol

Spam.

[Rickertsen2]

This year's game is okay as far as fun factor and excitement but nothing close to last year's game which was my personal favorite. I predict that there will be fewer sucessful robots than last year.

To me, this year's game seems too similar to Triple Play.

It also features the hardest (except tripple play) autonomous yet. It is arguably also one of the most useless.