Lunacy = Greatest Game Ever

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Originally Posted by Dantvman27

Entertaining to watch: every person that i know that has watched FIRST events with me in the past and not knowing anything about robotics said this year was highly entertaining (over say, overdrive, which was one of the least entertaining games to watch). There was alot of robot interaction, high scoring, and just fun thigns to watch. Games like this and AIM high, IMO attract more spectators.

i don’t know who you were talking to but everyone I've talked to says they were bored out of their minds with this year’s game. I thought overdive was boring to watch, but at least during the finals on Einstein it was intense and sort of exciting to see how fast those teams could score. This year those on Einstein were so good at dodging that it hardly mattered that they had an incredible scoring device. There was no real last second exciting finish like with the ramps of 06 & 07 or the hanging bar in 04. Yes one can argue that the supercell was exciting, but it was hard to see which human player had one, and then they didn’t always use it, and rarely made it.

I did like how they really changed up the playing field and made veterans come out of their shells. However the bumpers seemed to really limit the design potential. While I don't like bumpers at all, I do see where they have a purpose, and it acts as a design constraint just like ones found in the "real world."

My $0.02 summary of the past 5 years:

05-great strategy, heavy objects lifted over 10ft, control a must, end game line not really important
06-similar to basketball, easy to explain, fast paced high scoring, bonus ramp
07-great strategy, work together to lift each other off the ground
08-almost no strategy, easy to score, manipulate huge balls, end game had little impact, limited human player
09- no apparent strategy, new playing surface, human player is key, end game hard to see and had little impact

Those are just the games i have actually seen.

I would agree with most that the best game was 04.

IMHO Lunacy=worst game in at least 6 years