What is your favorite FRC game to date?

[Matt Howard]

As a former driver, my pick is Rack N' Roll. That game was an absolute blast to watch, play, as well as describe to people. It was fast, it was rough, it was difficult at times, and you never knew what was going to happen when the next ring went on the rack.

Definitely kept people on their toes!

[rees2001]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

279 2004 robot was my all time favorite. It would grab the bar pull up, flip over, hand upside down on the bar.
And 67's bot that year might have been their greatest bot ever. They just ran into the one bot that could stop them on Einstein in 868 (actually 237 could have done the same thing).

I voted for 2004 also. Great game! As for keeping 67 off the bar, if we had managed to not get hung up we could have kept 868 on the other side of the bar & gone on to the finals, but it wasn't meant to be.

As for a ranking, I've only been around for 10 years so I'm biased.

2004 - so many things to do
2000 - easiest game to re-do as 3 vs 3
2006 - you got to shoot things, how much cooler could it have been?
2007 - easy enough to understand, team deployed ramps made for a nice switch
2003 - King of the hill! I heard there were bins in this game also.

[Herodotus]

I've been involved for the past four years so I can only pick out of those, and I have to pick 2007. I prefer games that require some sort of arm to those that use a shooter as it leads to be more robot to robot interaction when going for a single target. Plus I still think 2007's autonomous mode was the most interesting of the past four years and the end game was also awesome.

[Tetraman]

While Tripple Play was my favorite game I played in, but Aim High was my favorite game overall.

[Steven Sigley]

Anyone have any wild ideas for a game that could integrate the best features of '04 and '07?

[Fe_Will]

Originally Posted by Steven Sigley

Anyone have any wild ideas for a game that could integrate the best features of '04 and '07?

Play '04 with 3 teams per alliance?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Fe_Will

Play '04 with 3 teams per alliance?

There was barely enough room for four robots on the field in 2004 nevermind 6.
That platform was huge!

[Fe_Will]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

There was barely enough room for four robots on the field in 2004 nevermind 6.
That platform was huge!

There was plenty of room as long as you could climb the steps...

[Tyler Olds]

My top 3 (in my nine years of FIRST)

2004 - So much to do and so many creative designs, this game was always non-stop action and excitement. I still love watching that video of 190 climbing over another robot to hang on the bar (I don't remember what off-season competition this happened at off the top of my head).

2002 - A game of great strategy (unless you were 71 and all you had to do is to not have your arm break (nations) or not get entangled (IRI (Thanks Baker! ))). In qualifing rounds, the winning alliances score was actually 3 times the losing alliances score. So if you dominated 40 - 3, you actually only got 9 points.

2009 - The reason I liked this game was because it was easier for the public to understand than what many other years was. It was fast paced and involved a lot of scoring (especially during elims and the championship).

I also would like to give a consulation prize to 2005 and 2006. I loved how there was such a big emphasis on autonamous mode where you recieved additional points for scoring the vision tetras or the most amount of points (you can contest 2004 was big with the 10pt ball, however most robots were not able to do this).

[AJ R]

Aim High was my favorite. It was fun to watch and had some great robots. There was constant action and good strategy by switching offense and defense. I also liked the autonomous because it gave you a bonus.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

I prefer not to date FRC games, I will stick to girls.

You're in FRC and manage to have time to date girls? Lucky. :/

I've only played in one FRC game, so I can't really say, but of the games I didn't play, FIRST Frenzy looks the most interesting.

I said Lunacy, because of the games I've seen (Rack 'n Roll, Overdrive, Lunacy) this one was the most fun to watch. Also, my team did a little better than we normally do, so that was a good incentive. However, of the ones I've never seen except in old videos of matches, my favorites would be Zone Zeal, First Frenzy and Aim High. Shame First Frenzy happened already, I feel like I could build a really good robot.

[smurfgirl]

2007 and 2005 were my favorites. 2007 had the opportunity for such great strategy, the tradeoffs of weight classes, the duality of tasks, and was very visually centralized and appealing to the audience. 2005 was my introduction to FIRST, and also had great strategy involved.

Games I wish I could have played include 2004 and 2000... but I still think 2007 would be my favorite ever.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Wow, this thread makes me feel old. My favorite game I participated in was 2004. It had a great end game, human centric scoring with bonuses decided by robots (from either alliance) And there was a strategic benefit to Auton that year.


Least favorite was 2005. I blame the game pieces and the fact that if I ref thought you were to close to a robot loading in the human loading station it was a 30 pt penalty. I understand the safety risks but I just dont like penalties like that. The game piece was heavy and broke often. Cameras just didnt cut it that year either.

[chessking132]

I loved 2007 it was a great game to drive and watch. It had a perfect balance between offense and defense. It was just such a fun game.

Matthew Simpson
Team 75 Leadership/Driver