why I don't like this year's game

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Drop a trackball on your head, that'll make your brain hurt.

My initial reaction was being underwhelmed, to say the least. Then we got the ball out. Geez, we gotta pick up that thing?! I thought making the bot would be easy this year.

Maybe there's not as much strategy in point manipulation as there was in Rack n Roll or Triple Play. It's more like racking up points in Aim High. But there still will be strategy. The simple fact that your team of 3 only has 2 game pieces leads to all sorts of strategic decisions.

I'm willing to let things simmer a while to see what kind of soup we get in the end.

I want to come up with some witty response, but eh I won't. When I can imagine seeing at the VCU regional again teams just racing in a circle, gently nudging eachother to pass, to score, then I'm falling asleep. We're talking about a regional where many matches were 20 vs. 10 in 2005 (with those scores being the robots getting to the end zone). How about we stop having this great big gap between what teams can do (either easy tasks that make boiling water look hard) or things only Wildstang can accomplish (10lb 40" ball anyone?)

Give me 2006 any day, I wish I had waited a year to go out on a bag with that game. Anyone with a wheel and a hopper could shoot balls or dump 'em, that was a game that always left me in awe...