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What do you think the rules will be like? And an end game?

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Stacking was done in 2003, though I guess it could be implemented in some other way.

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Ok had an idea for an end game.

What if they brought the minibots back but this time they have to stop in a scoring area that changes every match (or not for less complexity) and the smaller the zone the more points its worth.

This could be up poles again(boring) or at a blocked off arena in the center of the playing field.

This could be interesting as teams will have to figure out a way to get the minibots to stop at the end of the match.

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Stairs. You need to place game pieces on a flight of stairs. The higher you place the piece, the more points. If you climb up the stairs when you place the piece, you get the score multiplied. If you end on the top of the stairs, you get more points. Also, points can be scored by stacking game pieces. 28 x 38 robots with 6 CIMs and 4 mini-CIMs.

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Im thinking pick-up-sticks of some kind. Something that requires more percision. I am not leaning towards a water related game because of Sea-Perch (sorry if I spelled it wrong), and underwater robotics competition not affiliated with FIRST but a lot of FIRST kids are involved in it.

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Not necessarily gameplay, but my ideas were ultrasonic beacons for goals and RFID chips for scoring object.

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Football (QB) and the end-game can be to climb steps!

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I want to see a game when FIRST has a suggestion box and people can submit their various ideas, and they can incorporate them all together so that we would have a game created by the community.

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The problem is that they design games years in advance.

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It's the perfect time for a hockey game, seeing as there are more FRC teams in Minnesota (you know, the State of Hockey) than there are guys High School Hockey teams this year!

I'm thinking something like Break Away (floor level goals, minimal excursion beyond the frame perimeter, no game piece penetration into the frame perimeter) crossed with Overdrive (oval laps, like the zamboni's), all played on regolith!

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What, you think the GDC doesn't mine threads like this for ideas?

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I would be down with some curling. Unless I'm mistaken, wouldn't it be around the winter Olympics?

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Correct. And recently, FIRST has had a habit of using milestones and current events in the theme of the game. 2009, Lunacy, commemorated the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, 2010 with the World Cup, and 2011 as the 20th FRC game.

If it is an Olympic Winter Sport, what are the plausibilities? Hockey and Curling have already been thought of, any other ideas?

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FIRST said that they would increase matches in the championships, so what if it was 4 on 4, 2 offence 2 defence?

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Statistically it's quite likely that the game will involve some sort of balls-- even years since before 2000 have always had balls.

Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if they threw off that trend as well. In fact, while I love designing mechanisms that fling objects at high velocities, it would be refreshing to not do that one year.