Not to jinx next year, but...
 

I kind of expect a ball/projectile game. I also expect a return to "sports" as a sub-theme, though there I am more hoping than speculating based on historical precedent.

AA was a game that, with some tweaking and repeating over years, could have become Robot Ball, taking good elements of various sports and melting them into something great. Alas, we are unlikely to see that happen. We've already seen approximations of soccer (football) and basketball. So what is left, among ball sports? American Football? Baseball? Tennis? What else?

What do you think? Where can FRC go from here?

Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaase, no water game ideas. Please.



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Water polo?

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We've been kicking around the idea of a football for a while....

Water game? The DVD for Spare Parts will be available Tuesday! Go buy it, watch a water game, see that it's not something that works very well in the FIRST context. Then go build an ROV just to play with

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Hockey?

Return of the regolith field?

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that was my prediction for this year but it didnt happen. It would be so fun

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Recycle Rush: Flip Edition

All totes on the field are flipped over and need to be scored upright.
All totes off the field must be entered upside down and scored upright.

Extra points if your robot flips over.

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Return of the end game. Guarantee there is end game scoring next year.

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Throwing a football sounds like an interesting engineering challenge. Especially if they are of the NERF variety.

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Let's hope for that. i missed it.

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My fear is that creating a machine that throws a perfect spiral is so easy that there would be no unpredictability to the upper level matches; kind of like this year, in fact. If they do football, it seems to me they'd not do it for the typical low/mid/high target scores.

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I'm not so sure. I know I didn't really like endgames and a lot of peoples liked the lack of endgame in 2014 (maybe 2015 as well but the controversy over everything else kinda overwhelmed any endgame discussion if ever there was any. I know I'm glad there was no endgame)

I want to see aim high with dog toys or footballs and stuff like that. I think that would be fun. Or something to do with pylons (traffic cones). Or gratuitous amounts of small cheap game pieces like wiffle balls.

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Something 2008-ish would be nice. I loved the "racing" dynamic of that game, and I also love oversized gamepieces.

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I would love something like 2007 or 2011.

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2015 was a sort of re-do/throwback to 2003.
2014 was a sort of re-do/throwback to 2008.
2012 was a sort of re-do/throwback to 2006. (kinda sorta maybe it's a stretch)
2011 was a sort of re-do/throwback to 2007.

2016 will be a re-do/throwback to.......2005?? #tetras