If You could bring back one game, for 1 season in 09 what would it be?

[techtiger1]

My vote was for none to see 1114,25,217, etc,get a chance at fixing a existing design for the same game is a scary thought and not one I would like to go up against during competition. At an off season for fun sure that would be awesome stuff.

[David Guzman]

2004 all the way. Some of the robots that year were just insane.

2004 was our rookie year and our robot wasn't very good. We could only grab the 2X multiplier and it took us a little long. I would like to design a robot that could hang and cap very fast. Also climbings those stairs would be fun.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Dreadfrost

I know for sure that everyone else on my team would want 2005 becuase that was are dominant year. With Kazias we won both the Waterloo regional (First waterloo regional) Greater Toronto Regional, and we alos won engineering insipiration at both regionals like we did this year.

The 1305 robot in the 2005 season was certainly dominant. I'm sure your team would love to have a time machine to play that game again, and of course have the design brilliance of Todd Willick back on your team.

[Jeff Waegelin]

2000, for sure. It was the first game I ever saw, and I still think it's the best.

[Kingofl337]

2000 was the bomb!

[Akash Rastogi]

Anyone have videos from 2000 from the NJ regional? My brother also said it was the coolest. Just wanna see what was so great. thanks

[Zyrano]

99 and the puck, I'd get rid of the human players though, that'd be a whole new game...

[=Martin=Taylor=]

1992

Who wouldn't want to play a game where the defining attribute was that the field was covered in corn?

From video's I've seen 1998 was also really cool. There were some really crazy designs that year.

[KingBK]

I would definitely bring back the 2004 game. There was so much going on and in my mind the best part was that the human player was really doing all the scoring. In my mind, this was the perfect showing of robot and man working together. It was also my team's rookie year so I'd like to do it again with the knowledge that we have now.

But it's also wouldn't be a bad idea to do this years again. I know it just ended but their were so many different ways for your robot to score. My team tried out dozens of ideas before we settled on the one that we used.

[Derek Bessette]

I would love to bring back 2003 with two changes. Firstly, make the boxes in a stack count. For example a stack of 7 with 1 on the floor would be worth 56 points (7*(7+1)=56 pts) instead of just 7. Secondly, make the eliminations win/loss rather than total points.

I would just love to see how different that game would have been. We had a great stacker that year. Unfortunately, "Stack Attack" had more to do with attacking than stacking.

Long live "The Paw"!

[Gene F]

Originally Posted by rees2001

If you want to make room for 2000 you could easily get rid of 2001. I don't know ANYBODY that liked that game.

According to the numbers above there are at least 4 of us that found the 2001 game the best! I liked having all the robots on the field working towards a common goal. There was also a good variety of tasks to be accomplished.

It was my first year and that may have something to do with it.

[waialua359]

We never did FIRST in 2004. Based on the poll results so far, its too bad we didnt! We chose another program called Botball that year.
Aim High was definitely the best for us even though our robot got killed by Raider Robotixs Team 25 that year!
They were the best hands down for individual robots!!!

[Madison]

I'd love a shot at the 1999 or 2000 games with the knowledge that I have now.

[Tim Baird]

Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher

2000. Definitely 2000. Don't make all the old schoolers come out of the woodwork to tell you how much they love that game

Timmy's coming out of the woodwork!

Seriously, 2000 was fantastic. Between parking on the ramp, hanging from the bar, stealing balls, and then the very often yet very deadly scoring for your opponent to maximize your QPs...
The only thing I'd change about that game would be to take away the 2-speed transmission from Rage so that they wouldn't beat me to the blackball every match!

However, given this poll, I'll say 2005. 3D tic-tac-toe that would give math majors a headache as you watched the score constantly change with each tetra-placement was insane. And nothing was cooler than seeing a match end with a 10-tetra high pile slowly creep over and everyone whips out their cameras (including refs and field crew) to see how far over it would tip prior to its possible fall to the carpet.

[Herodotus]

Well I've heard awesome things from our 2005 team members about how much they loved Triple Play so I wouldn't mind replaying it(or rather, playing it for the first time.) I wouldn't mind replaying pretty much any of the pre-2006 games simply because I didn't play them on the first go around, and they all sound rather interesting.

But out of the ones I've been a part of so far 2007 has been my favorite year. I wouldn't mind replaying it either, simply because of how much better we were at the end of the year then at the beginning.