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Re: Ultimate Ascent - Most Difficult Ever? Too difficult?

This game is absolutely *NOT* too difficult, but many teams will make it too difficult by biting off more than they can chew.

This game has more forced compromises in it than any I've ever been involved with, to be sure... And I'm not entirely convinced that we compromised the right way. Time will tell!
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Re: Ultimate Ascent - Most Difficult Ever? Too difficult?

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This game is absolutely *NOT* too difficult, but many teams will make it too difficult by biting off more than they can chew.

This game has more forced compromises in it than any I've ever been involved with, to be sure... And I'm not entirely convinced that we compromised the right way. Time will tell!

This seems to be the only year where I have seen a number of teams "putting all their eggs in one basket". I really hope that these teams do succeed since pulling off the 30 point climb since it is so technically challenging and so cool, like 118's bridge balancing mechanism. Our team, being only in it's second year, chose two modest forms of scoring so we would not be left with zero capabilities after a single failure.
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Re: Ultimate Ascent - Most Difficult Ever? Too difficult?

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This game is absolutely *NOT* too difficult, but many teams will make it too difficult by biting off more than they can chew.
My favorite thing about this year's game is that it is quite obviously difficult. Just go on youtube and look for videos of dogs trying to pick up frisbees. Shooting frisbees is also non-obvious, and just thinking about climbing the period makes my head hurt. This makes it easier for smart teams to say, "Well, that's probably not worth our time" and build a robot that ignores one portion of a game.

Games that are non-obviously difficult (Breakaway) are less exciting to watch. Teams try and do everything because they think it will be easy, and then the devil is in the details and none of the mechanisms really work.
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