I apologize in advance if this thread actually does exist elsewhere. After a half an hour of searching and asking friends, I’ve come to the conclusion it doesn’t exist, hence the creation of this thread. If there is one already, please kindly post the link here.
Anyways, as the title says, I want to make a thread with the best matches of Ultimate Ascent. Generally any exciting, high scoring match featuring excellent strategy and matchplay that can inspire people purely by watching it. Please link a video with any match you post (It’s fun to hear about a great match, but not posting a link to the video is just teasing us). Also, don’t post that match where your specific team was really good solely for the sake of showing off your own team.
Certinally a few come to mind right away. I’m going to post this for all of the nonvideo watching members that might not know these are there I think these showcase this years game pretty well.
The finals at IRI http://www.youtube.com/user/IndianaRobotics These matches propbablly showcase UA the closest way that the GDC dreamed of. The finals (F-1 and F-2) showcased 3 multidisk autonomous routines, 3 3-level climbers with pyrmaid dumps, and a FCS plus defense of that said shooter.
The 2013 Michigan State Championship(a bit long) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUUL97AQ_3A This video is a showcase of the final three matches of the Michigan State Championship. It features student interviews as well as displaying what team have to struggle through during the Eliminations of an FRC event. It also has probablly the best shot of a FCS all year. I would recomend this video to any team that hasnt made it to an elimination in FRC to show how making changes during your team’s “break and recharge the battery” period can make or break winning.
The Galileo Elim(very long) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW87dF5Bp4U any of the division elimination rounds are fun to watch during some spare time but I personally like the Galileo elims the best as most of the matches were extremely close. I think its also amazing to see how close you can come to losing a World championship as 1241,1477, and 610 played in some very tight finals matches in root to winning it all “eh partner”(Sorry had too :o ).
My absolute favorite match was the quarterfinals of Galileo 8th seed vs 1st. (1114, 118, 4039) (27, 245, 1732) Quarter 1 Match 2 when the 8th seed defeated the first seed 166 - 148. It was the most intense and close match i’ve ever seen. Here’s the link: Click Here
The finals at IRI were absolutely brilliant, and I think the absolute most electrifying matches of an overall electrifying year.
Really exciting also were all the divisional finals matches. Every single alliance in the divisional finals showcased different strategies, but some were really good for other reasons:
Archimedes Finals: The autonomous battles between 469 and 987 were especially awesome. The strategy of the 33-469-1519 alliance overpowered the statistically better 2415-987-2959 alliance en route to an Einstein showing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURaHgJYP10&t=34m0s
Newton Finals: The underdog alliance vs. the stacked 1 alliance
Everything clicked for the underdog alliance, while everything fell apart for the number 1 alliance. 303’s full-court shooting overpowered 217’s, 3476’s gorgeous autonomous equaled or exceeded the massive auto from 1538 and 1986, and 1640’s climb finally worked right. It was a perfect storm for some intensely competitive Newton finals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF9ApPlaNKY&t=32m32s
Curie Finals: Oh my goodness was Curie insane. On one hand, you have the non-scorched 1 alliance of 1678-148-862, whose power was too much for any other scorched alliance to handle. On the other hand, you had a rookie-captained alliance on 4814-67-1918 with two climbs, ridiculous full-court shooting, and awe-inspiring defense. Both alliances only had a 5-disc auto to boot. And the two best full-court shooters in the world faced off. THEN, to top it all off, a poor tech foul and red card were assessed, giving the underdog alliance an edge out of the gate. It was incredible and suspenseful, and despite the scorching, the Curie alliance put on a good show on Einstein.
AND the Galileo finals, where the future world champs made a case for themselves. The opposing alliance was one of the strangest at championships. Outside of autonomous, the only real scoring done was by 2169, an extremely good full-court shooter. 2175 played enforcer, and scored 3-5 in auto. And 3284 scored 3 in auto, then played defense. Then, in Finals-1, 2169 couldn’t line up for their full-court shot/loading issues/jammed or something, so their alliance scored a meager 59 points. The eventual world champions stunned everyone by putting up huge numbers just cycling, even though all three robots were capable of full-court shooting, and 1477 could play floor-pickup. The result was a dynamic and interesting finals match. (Although many would argue that the semi-final upset was better):
Also worth watching are the Michigan State Championship finals, ALL of the IRI eliminations, Waterloo finals, Crossroads finals, CT finals (:D),Battlecry finals, and I’m sure a number of others I’m forgetting that were fantastic and competitive.
