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robotics + water!!! Probably will be a different thing. Underwater submarines that fight!!!
:P

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I beg to differ. I have no idea what their voices sound like, so I find it difficult to believe that that is how I am reading it. ;)

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In case you want to hear what their voices "actually sound like" skip to 2:22

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As soon as I saw 'glow-in-the-dark tape measures', my mind immediately jumped to this. I'm sure that would attract a ton of people to come see the competitions.. :D

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"2015 game will be played solely with cameras with operators behind a black curtain."

Sorry I can't attribute this, but I found this in the 2013 game thread. Further proof of a new game style...:ahh:

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I'm sincerely hoping we end up with an end-game that involves monkey bars, like crossing a set of them 1 bar at a time. The difficulty provided would be so enjoyable, until you have to make something that works of course.

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Wait.. We're supposed to make something that can actually complete a task?

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No, you're supposed to fail miserably for the entertainment of the crowd, didn't you know? No one was actually supposed to climb the pyramid this year, you were just supposed to dismount from the top bar, bonus points for sticking the landing.

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I did thoroughly enjoy seeing robots falling off the top pyramid, but I would feel sorry for them if the robot got heavily damaged.

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We actually did have a 30-point climber, but by the time we were actually able to get it that high (about the 4th or 5th match..) our mechanism had stretched a bit and we were under the 3rd region by maybe a half inch. Sucks to suck.

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Similar to ours. We were using fiberglass for our arms because of their strength and flexibility. Whenever our climber failed and we were hanging from just one arm, that one stretched and caused the climber to always fail until we fixed it by replacing the arm or stretching the other arm to make sure they had the exact same lengths. Team 2403 climbed in a similar way to us, till the third rung, however, they used aluminum and hinges instead, making it more robust. Also, I was surprised how their climber utilized only two BAG motors, while we used and entire MiniCIM and got a similar or faster speed

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We had a 3-CIM driven Lunchbox (gray) raise/lower the crossbeams (black) with a custom-tapped rod (red). Once this grabbed the bar, it pulled the robot upwards and pushed the bar under the static claws (also gray). The arm could then lift up to the next bar. It was mounted on a platform that could pivot the robot forward or back to shift the weight. Yeah, it was a bit complex. :D

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We designed a climber that was meant to go to level 1. Our driver attempted to use the mechanism to take it to level 2.

The outcome? Magic smoke.:rolleyes:

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I think that we probably won't have a shooter game. However I would not classify hockey as a shooter game. I really liked the idea of trying to get game pieces on your side of the field. Also dodge ball sounded fun, the only problem would be making it complicated enough for scouting to play in, but the GDC can probably come up with a solution to that. For the endgame my idea is that you have minibots that climb stairs.

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Full size bowling ball game piece.