I will say I enjoyed the engineering challenge that Recycle Rush provided both during RI3D and the build season with 4607. Anyways, this could easily have influenced my opinion of this game. By this time we realized our efforts were likely for nothing because if it were me, I would have taken us off the scouting list. ![]() After the worst streak of luck we’ve ever had, our 9th match basically turned into our 1st match, and our 10th match into our 2nd. We later found out it was a field fault but it was too late to do anything about it. Fifteen seconds into the match our alliance partner ran into our driver station wall and the communications for our robot instantly dropped. In that match everything on our robot was working perfectly. We didn’t get our robot fully connected to the FMS until our 7th match. This year unless you have a noodle rocket launcher, you just have to hope for the elite team to fail (another aspect of this game I don’t like).įull Disclosure: My team stuggled mightily at the North Star Regional. Changing strategies, attempting suffocating defence etc. At least in previous games there were things that could be done to upset the top alliance. It has to do with the fact that everybody in Mariucci Arena figured out (most fairly early) that 2826 was going to pick 3130 and the rest were going to play for their wildcard spots. This has nothing to do with them or 3130 whom I hold in the same regard. They did an incredible job at North Star and deserve every accolade that they earned. 2826 is such a dominant team with an amazing robot. When I saw those top teams compete at their first event I knew exactly who was going to win North Star. When I saw the teams who were going to be at our regional it was unbelievably easy to tell who was going to do well. I will however say that my least favorite part about the game is the predictability. They’ve already been stated so I see no reason to state them again. You can look at a number of other threads for exact reasons as to why I don’t like Recycle Rush. I didn’t realize how great the past games were until now as I’ve had no reference. I’ve been spoiled by joining FRC during 2013. Sometimes you just need to make sure the horse is dead. Now I’m going to beat what I consider to be a dead horse at this point. Pit scouting was much less meaningful and as a result I saw much less strategizing than previous years.Īfter speaking with Volunteers, Mentors, Parents, and Students I heard the same message over and over: “This game is boring”. However this year a large majority of teams left very early. ![]() Teams left hours before pits closed which isn’t uncommon. At least nothing compared to previous years. It was my first year as a robot inspector (last year I was a student) which I only did on Thursday (I was with my team the rest of the time). My team just got done with the North Star Regional which my team has attended all 3 years of its existence. I’m going to start this off by saying I don’t want this to come across in a negative way, and I certainly don’t want to offend anybody.
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