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Dibs on Gypsy Danger!

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And for the endgame the robot has to go through a wormhole and self-destruct.:D

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Also, it's Gipsy Danger.

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Half-Life 3 will be the game theme. This I know for sure.

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I am positing this at 6:36 EST.
6+3+6=15.
15/5=3
EST has 3 letters
Half Life 3 has 3 words.

Half Life 3 Confirmed.

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You know it is true because:

student17's post was the 380th on this thread.
Half life 2 came out on November 16th, 2004
Today's date is 11/19/13

380 is also 11000010 in binary. Converted to ASCII you get char(196)
6 looks like a second nine, so ignore the second nine. the first 9, minus 1 is 8.
the eighth letter of the alphabet is 'H'
Today is the 19th, on a 'QWERTY' keyboard, the 19th letter is 'L'
Back to that second nine from above. take today's date and subtract 9 years, you get 11/19/04. That date is what? exactly '3' days after Half Life 2 came out.

What do we get? HL3.


boom.

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My team and I came up with a really good idea for a water game this year called "Shockwave". It mostly involves having your robot be thrown into a pool of water and gradulally being more and more destroyed. You get more points for each piece of your robot that is no longer useable after the match, so you have to put a lot on there. If you can, your alliance also will get points for the destruction of other robots, and at the end of the match the drive team can jump into the pool, and each drive team member sent to the hospital gets you an extra 3 points.

Good luck and we'll see you at the competition.

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Oh no, if this is true then I guess the FRC game won't ever come out!:p

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A lot of the recent games have been sports, I think FIRST is going to do something different. But as the driver and the electrician, I do NOT want a water game...

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As I driver, I have done this before at outreach events. I was working with a group of boyscouts, and I had just gotten the camera to work for the first time since the season. They immediately told me to go down this hallway that I could not see, and it would come to a door not 10 feet from our computer setup. It was a lot of fun, but since our camera wasn't centered, it was kind of hard.

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We bridged our robot through our school wide wifi, and put the camera on the projector in our lab. We drove around the school, and even got someone (without mic/speakers) to operate the elevator for us! all from the safety of our lab.

*EDIT*

Now that I think about it, we have DISTRICT wide wifi. We could control the robot from any school to any other school with zero more effort. The internet feeds to our admin building and then feeds to the schools. I can drive by any school in town and my phone will automatically sync and log into my account, and you can file transfer between schools. You can ping a different school's computers using a local ip

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I see many recent posts have gone off topic.... but here is a an actual game idea that some friends and I thought of.

What if the endgame was for the robot to go to the corners of the field, and the teams would get points for every corner they are touching?

Assuming FIRST outlaws tethers, the way to do this would be that the robots separate into smaller robots. A teams big robot could consist of 4 robots put together.

Of course this means FIRST might have to change the bumper rules :eek:, and put in a rule making it so each sub robot has to start in a center zone and be self powered (or something in that manner). I think it would both be very cool and and interested curve-ball challenge for elite level teams. Any thoughts?

Also, 2014 ARM GAME! :p

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That sounds very cool, and if you could share the steps you took I would greatly appreciate it!

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Seems like the FRC Challenges mimic the previous years' FTC Challenges...just an observation.

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So we can basically look forward to another Tube game.

Which kinda bums me out, I've always loved the projectile games.