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ChrisH,

I hate to disappoint you but, I have, based upon good evidence gathered by three dumpster divers at MIT, this years game information. To appease all the fans who have wanted a water game....this years competition will be based upon syncronized swimming. The alliances will require six robots each. If at the end of the 2 minute competition, all six robots surface upside down, the alliance will be awarded triple points. The Gila Monsters will be selling robot nose plugs as a fund raiser.

Ken Loyd
Team #64

PS. The finals have been moved to a one day event held on April 1st.

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Don't be trashin' Nelly. I know it may sound wierd but some of his stuff isn't that bad.

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They will be the all-sing,all-dancing poo of the world.

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How bout this:
What if the robots engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the human players. Sort of a "BattleBots" meets "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Points are doubled if you get blood splatters into the third row of the audience. However, there is a catch: the whole thing has to be autonomous (headache for me, the 408 head computer nerd...pixie pride!!!). :]

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Right, so imagine this: instead of only four robots on the field at a time, we make it sixteen. The field is only two times as large as it was last year, however, leading to an astonishing rate of robot traffic jams going through the bottleneck in the middle of the playing field. Suspended thirteen feet, 7.259 inches above the playing field is the Mega-Multipliyer. If at the end of autonomous mode 3 or more robots are touching the mega-multipliyer, all teams scores are multiplied by the number of robots touching the multiplyer minus one. Scoring is accomplished by moving "Furbies(tm)" to either of two incinerators located at each end of the field. The sixteen robots must work together, but each must work towards the individual robot goals that only one robot can accomplish in each round:
1) Demolish the most "Furbies(tm)" - 30 individual points
2) Control the Base (green carpet patch) - 10 points
3) Travel the furthest distance (Robot Odometers!) - 20 points
4) Consume the most souls - 666 points. (Judging on this is expected to be controversial as the major philosophical groups and religions grapple over a final definition of "soul", how possession of a "soul" can be taken, how possession of a "soul" effects the owner, whether or not we actually have "souls" in the first place, and if a "soul" is good as a lunch.)

A teams score is therefor calculated as
(robots touching Mega-Multiplyer at end of minute 1) * (Number of "Furbies(tm)" obliterated) / 3.141592 + Individual robot points.

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you've got it all wrong, this year's competition will be using humans as the object, where the object of the game is to seek out the other team's humans and feed them into some type of human-furnace which fuels your robot. the scoring will equal ((number of humans eaten/wieght of robot)+number of satanic sacrifice)*cases of mountain dew consumed by team.

then the tiebreaker will be a battle between the human players on each team on segways with jousting javalins, last team standing wins.

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oh and a robot designed singing/dancing contest will need to be in there somehow...

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For this years game the whole thing will be in auto modes. In fact we just have to send the robot away to first tell them how we set it up then they'll runt he matches and give us trophies later.

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Forget FIRST, I'll just start a segway jousting team at Venice High! How much fun would that be? I'll get the woodshop people working on making me a few lances as soon as we're back in session!

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A total ban on duct tape and plastic ties
:ahh:

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I have heard from reliable sources that this year’s competition is going to go somewhat like the Miss America contest.
There will be robot bathing suit competitions (10 points)
Evening gown contests (20 points)
A talent shows part (50 points)
A sing & dance show (15 points)
& The best part will be the part where the robots have to dress up like Richard Simmons and shoot bees out of their mouths. (100 points)

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Submarines!!!! :D

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complete with depth charges and torpedos! DIVE DIVE DIVE! AEOOOOGGAAH!

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personally I think the robot task this year will be to design and win a robot to compete in the FIRST LEGO league. no user interface either, all auto mode!

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For this years game we will have to build helicopters. This would lead to even more weight problems.