Ok, cool :cool:

*Now back to your regularly scheduled post*

Hint #1
 

Here is hint #1:

"The field component is HUGE!"

(yip, it's really, really huge)

:D

**Everyone yells in unison...HOW BIG???**
 

^ok lets not push it right? :rolleyes:
Hint #1 eh? *waits for another*
also... jw, how do you know this?

Hint #2:
 

Here is Hint #2:

The playing field component(s) is really simple.
(and so is the game)

:D

Whatever it is, I just hope that we can use our current (2002) robots, with tiny modifications. Basically, what I'm saying is, I hope we can use the frames, to minimize on build time and engineering.

Hint #3:
 

Here is hint #3:

There are NO moving parts on the field component.

:D

You're really not supposed to reuse entire mechanisms from previous years robots. . . you can use the design again, however. A lot of teams have standardized chassis designs that drop together quickly.

My team isn't one of them ;)

Minimize build time and engineering?
What's the fun in that?!? :D

I hope FIRST does something drastically different, and forces everyone to throw the "old" ideas out the window. I'd like to see something radically different (even if I did love last year's game).

Oops, sorry, I meant (The design, not the entire robot)

Maybe the drivetrain, etc. if the new playing field allows, at least, that's what the engineers are telling us to do. I don't like it, and I hope that we do have to build from the ground up, because this is my first year. (I want to learn something, and have a little fun in the process)

Last Hint:
 

Here is probably the last hint:

"what is common between the 2000 FRC field
and 2002 FLL field?"

:D

Re: Last Hint:
 

Are you toying with us, Rich Wong? If you are not, then the only pieces of information I can gather from these clues are there is only one "field component" or goal, its most likely stationary, and it--resembles a bridge or ramp? ... ???

Rich is not toying with you, he is a judge now, formerly affiliated with my team, so he knows the game. and no, we've tried torture and it wont get it out of him... (we almost had him with the thumbscrews... :) but seriously, the only way you will get to find out the game before everyone else would be to voulenteer at one of the kickoffs. Thats what im doing. The kickoffs all do there own thing, but at the NYC kickoff, they will be building a lego model of the field and probably a few robots, so naturally, helpers will be needed :)

2002 FLL Field:


2000 Field overhead attached at bottom.


The only similarities I see is the fact of there being a bridge that "needs to be crossed"
in FLL, the bridge needed to be fixed so the people could cross it, in FRC, the bridge needed to be crossed to get to balls on other side (or get under the bar's under trough).

Possibly also, but kinda farfetched, is FLL's "modular housing" (in the field picture it's middle left close-up). if looked at straight, all you see is 4 lines going across, this somewhat resembles a straight view of the trough.

My 2¢

Re: Last Hint:
 

it has to be the bridge from the 2002 FLL field and the ramp from the 2000 FRC field. If you look at the other hints, a ramp can be huge, its simple, and has no moving parts

im thinking that the only parallel between the 2002 FLL game and the 2000 FRC game would be that there is an incline on the field. not necessarily a ramp that needs to be crossed. this year, the whole field could be on an incline, that slopes in the middle, or possibly slopes all to one side...