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[quote=RomeroFRC5012;1492807]Personally i think that they will reuse the pool noodles but at a later date[/QUOTE
Easy prediction: noodles will be reused next year...Bumpers! |
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[geezer] Back in my day, bumpers were these things that were totally useless! They took weight away from other components, and nobody else had them either! We had full-speed, metal-on-metal contact that could be heard from the top of the stands, and we liked it! I don't know what this generation is coming to, they think bumpers are required! Well they oughtta build stronger 'bots is all! Nothin' wrong with a robot using welded 1/8" tubing in the drivetrain and not a bumper in sight![/geezer] Bear in mind that bumpers were OPTIONAL my last two years as a student ('06 and '07). Before that, you built to take whatever hit you. (Or developed OTHER means of defense--though I do recall hearing something about weight-transferring bumpers from Las Guerrillas back around the '05 timeframe when a lot of teams ran wedges on their robots). |
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...Because bumper construction is one of the best indicators of quality out there! And there are a lot of teams out there who can barely make a bumper that is legal as it is, let alone a solidly-constructed, high-quality bumper. OTOH, the teams that take the time to make the bumpers right generally have high-quality robots as well. |
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If they were going to reuse a game piece I think that inner tubes would be a strong possibility as vertical stacking would be a very different game. If they wanted to fix and improve an old game I think that the 2009 concept of robots carrying or being targets could be done better. Have a 3 foot deep basket attached on top of robots with a smaller game piece like tennis balls. Improving old games is pretty much what they did with recycle rush as it is very close to 2004.
As far as new game pieces go footballs are the next logical choice for a complex sports based challenge that would still be easy enough for rookies. |
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If you want to shoot things and have an interesting target, have bowling pins (plastic, of course) set up on the field. Shoot tennis balls at them. Robots cannot pass midfield. Scoring is done at the end of the game by how many pins left standing. Defense can either block balls or reset pins knocked over. Simple rules. Speed of ball and vertical angle must be limited but other than that, almost anything would go. ;)
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How would you catch a robot shooting a ball too fast? Refs wielding radar guns? If they did some sort of inspection in the pits, I think people would intentionally force their shooter wheel to spin slower (Software limiting) that they would only engage for the inspection. |
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They've already had a launch velocity limiting rule before, in 2006.
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