Lunacy Review

[RMS11]

Now that this year is officially over and 67, 111, and 971 have been crowned world champions, what did people think of this years game and also what do you hope to see different in future years. How would you compare it to other games in the past? Here are my personal thoughts, but only my 2nd year involved so I dont have that much to base it on:

Likes

Great quick action, and one big score could swing the match
Fun, penalty free action that allowed some big but non harmful robot hits
All goals could move so there was never an easy target but there were 3, thus matches never played out the same every time
Super cells allowed for some last second action, and became an important part of strategy
Defense was just as important as offense
Scoring happened throughout the match and there was always something going on

Dislikes

The floor/wheels really lessened drive train creativity
Auto mode ended up fairly boring, and there was no incentive to score
Too much human player involvement, I think that humans should not be allowed to score points in future games, maybe humans should have been allowed to only score moon rocks in auto mode and then super cells?
Teams seemed to have lots of similar designs, I felt as if last year every design was fairly unique and different. I feel as part of this problem comes from teams not being allowed to expand outside of starting dimensions. I hope next years game will allow that.
There seemed to be a bigger luck factor in this game, but dont really have a solution besides maybe playing on carpet... But then I could see some robots getting demolished in the teleop period...

So what are your likes and dislikes??? And congrats to all teams on a great season. Overall I had much more fun this year than last.