What about creating the FIRST logo on the field? You could have either triangles, circles and squares, and assemble lots of logos, or maybe pieces of a puzzle that had to be assembled on the floor? 3-D pieces (pyramid, cube, sphere) would work, too.

one big problem: nobody in the crowd will be able to see these 'jaks' from far away.

another problem: counting to make sure every match has 1000 'jaks' would be pretty hard, and probably take forever.

my predictions are the following.

1. the carpet will be grey.
2. the poles will be black.
3. there will be a lexand shield in front of the controllers.
4. the referees will wear black and white stripes.
5. there will be a lot of lights.
6. there will be robots on the playing field.
7. there will be a big screen in the arena.
8. there will be lots of video cameras.
9. there will be cheesy music playing.
10. the game will last 2 minutes.

yayyyy!

-1800fortuneteller

Not fair!!
 

Hey!! Anton's cheating!!

~Tom Fairchild~, who says all the more power too him and wishes he thought of doing that first.

IMHO Number 10 is subject to change, I believe that will change this year!

What do you mean cheesy music??? You don't like the music??
<me>putting Anton on permanant ignore list for that comment!<me/>
LOL

Mike O'Leary, have you been taking too much ritalin? :D

Wayne Doenges

Total shot in the dark for 2002 game:
 

Ok, heres my guess:
A 3v1 competition where 3 robots are trying to deliver something (balls, floppies) to one of several goals (bins? not tall nor mobile like last year). These goals are locared atop a large flight of stairs. Each goal has a different point allocation: the hardest goal to score on (presumably the smallest opening) is worth more points than the easiest. The 3 robot group has access to the deliverable goods and the 4th solo bot is on top of the flight of stairs (~10 normally sized stairs) trying to stop the other 3 from scoring points. The 3 robot group is not an alliance though - they are all individually scored. The solo bot atop the stairs starts with a set amount of points, which are deducted when the other 3 bots score.
just a guess, and in looking over it, I already see some flaws, but oh well :)

I'd like to add a bit of water to that as well. Oh, and maybe 2 vs 2 vs 2 instead of 1 v 1 v 1.

Picture in your mind.
10 stairs.
130 lb robot at top of stairs.
Robot falls.
OH, the humanity :eek:

Some robots this year (2001) had a hard time just going over a small ramp without falling over, now you want to add stairs. I'm glad I'll be in the audience :D

Wayne Doenges

well, I guess its my fault - I thought of it, but just didn't type it. On the top, guard railings would save our precious robots from a perilous situation ;) And as for getting up (and down too) the stairs, I'm in for a challenge! Yeah, sure its incredibly unrealistic, but its just my crazy prediction.

10 stairs???
 

Who ever said 10 stairs??? I know when I made my guess I said only 3 stairs with a small rise and larger run factor. Meaning low steps but very wide/deep steps depending on your perspective!

Re: 10 stairs???
 

Heh, that was me...sorry, I didn't see your prediction, so I wasn't trying to copy :eek: My prediction is quite extreme (see above), involving 10 normal stairs - Our predictions different enough, no?

My prediction:

Same shape field as last year, but iwth a "robot entry gate" added.

Solid Wall going across teh middle about 2 feet high

On top of that wall are a series of shelves - where objects can rest on top of, mainly the circle, triangle and square of the FIRST logo.

it will be 2 versus 2, but the robots will start on opposite sides of the field.

Same time rules as last year, but to clock out, you must traverse the wall and your robot must hit a button at the other side of the field.

Oh, and you can only have two wheels touching the ground at any given time... :)

Tom

After seeing the BOM here are a few thoughts:

How about the combination of robot wars and sports. FIRST could build a couple of house bots to play like a goalie. Using the same 4 vs. 0 format the robots could play hockey.

or

maybe this years game would be something like a revision last year's

or

How about a combination of two past year's games. The game would be different enough to be new and prevent team from using a former robot but old enough to easily understood.

well those are just a few thoughts

Same field dimensions, 2vs. 2, longitudinal division of field, each robot on either end of the field, at least one multiplier. Don't really have any clue what to guess the object of the game would be, but I had to put something here so I have no regrets when the game is finally revealed.