SKEE BALL!!!!

(please kill this thread)

Wait... ... ... when hasn't the game been a glorified version of shuffleboard???

This sounds like a good way to damage the floor under the carpet. I highly doubt FIRST would employ heavy objects being dropped from any height.

...the robots themselves do enough damage to the carpet and floor...

It's people like you that spoil the fun of dumbasses like me...

>: (

2003 game
 

My inside source tells me that we will be stacking boxes with different colores on each end. Teams can steal the stack by balancing their color on top. There are three sizes of boxes all cubes, 12', 18' and 24".

Each team can build 2 robots but both must be within the starting size at the beginning of the match. They are not tethered. You really have a game of 2 vs 2 but you have the 2 robots.

Sounds like fun.

Well, of course, it's important to note that some teams (*cough*810*cough) have enough trouble finishing ONE robot :)

If they really expected us to build two, they'd have to dumb things down a lot, like, each robot that moves get 10 pts. :)

I second that. I'm lucky if my team can get more than three people working on the ONE robot. I'd go crazy.

I want to congratulate(translation beat down) those teams that manage to build two identical robots one to ship and one to practice with.

drr, i just realized something...

it's physically impossible to build two competition robots, that are not teathered, using the current control system scheme. from what i've heard, the controls are NOT changing, which means that there's no way that you're allowed two robots. of course, if the control system is changed to allow two RCs and two OIs, then 2 robots would be possible :D.

Maybe the human player would be converted to a driver. If it took us 36 hours of staight work to finish the 1st robot that would be 72 hours or 3 days. I hope I can operate power-tools after 3 days without sleep.:(

2003 game
 

What if you had two controlers and your robots were built to perform two different functions as opposed to an All-In ONe machine. And... your team drove both units as they deployed at the start of the match.

Hey what about establishing your parther team at the start of the season. You go to all the same regionals, all events. You planned the robot build together so they functioned as a very well coordinated team?

your partner for the entire season.

no, i'm just saying i thought that the controllers were going to be more or less exactly the same as last year, which means two robots per team is physically impossible. if they make changes to the controls, then two robots is possible.

Hmmm. Let me think. Standard control system we are used to + EduRobotics kit control system + autonomy = two OI's + two RCs + four robots per alliance = way cool competition.

But then, what do I know....


-dave

Maybe the goal of the 2003 game is to knock over some tower with balls and position them somewhere? Instead of driving over to the other side of the field and picking up balls you first have to get them down from a higher elevation...just a thought

All I wanna see is another entertaining competition that can have basic functions performed by a brick with wheels again.

i thought that the EduRobotics control system was not to be used for competition robots because it didn't have as many outputs as the competition one, or something like that... :/