Trading Cards
 

So on the last night in Atlanta some of the Cheesy Poofs were discussing the possibility of starting FIRST Trading cards with all the FRC teams that participate throughout the season.

We figured that there would be a card for each team for each year and on the card would be: Team name, team number, a picture of that year's robot, rookie year, and where they are from. I was wondering about anyone's thoughts about this idea.

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YES. That's all that needs to be said. Make up packs and sell them at regionals, and money goes to scholarships or something good like that. I would totally shell out the cash for that. What about ones with Dean Kaymen and Woodie Flowers on them? Or possibly, might I say it, Andy Baker???

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=trading+cards

A handful of teams have been making them for a few years, but it hasn't caught fully on yet.

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I think its a great idea... having a card showing a good pic of each robot and a pic of the team with team stats would make a awesome scouting tool esp if the card were of a high quality.

I would start with teams/robots first then if they go well move onto individual players with their stats like baseball player card.

Wouldn't it be awesome to see a pack of FIRST robotics trading cards in the checkout line with the baseball ect... cards. :D

-p :cool:

If this happens I guess I'll have to commit to a team... I want a Protronie card!

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Our team made trading cards and passed them out at our regional rather than buttons. They were actually pretty cool. Check it out.

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Our team also had trading cards with essential info on them, quite nice really

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Team 399 made Science and Technology Hero Cards and passed them out at LA and at Atlanta, with Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers being numbers 1+2. We might be able to send you a full deck if you email us (team399@gmail.com).

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Team 2228 asked all the teams at the Finger Lakes regional to submit a picture and stats for their robot, and they made trading cards for each team's robot that were given to each team. People also could get bonus cards with things like Dean or Woodie or "Mentors" on them, and I think there was a prize for getting all the cards.

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Team 195 has been doing trading cards for 3 years now. I like to thing of it as a pin with team info on it.

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awsome.. i would love to have a ultra-rare simbotics world championship holographic trading card, a thunderchicken's one wouldn't be bad either

having mentors on the cards would be awsome, maybe having special cards with epic alliances on them, like last years pink-swamp-beast
this is a GREAT idea

EDIT, add maybe MC's like Karthik's invisable bycycle and Mark Leon's Judo...

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At the FLR cougertech (2228) made cards of all the teams that where at FLR.

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That's exactly what we were thinking, i.e. like baseball cards.

I also like the idea of selling them and giving the proceeds to benefit something. For those of you that have tried this before how did you get quality pictures of each team to put them on the cards? Did you take the pictures yourselves during the regionals or did you ask them to send you pictures?

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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LETS DO IT!!!!!

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While lots of teams produce their own trading cards, I think the idea here is to have them produced for ALL teams, and perhaps sold in packs of ten random cards, for sale at events.

So if a trading card is .8mm thick and there are 1,500 teams in FRC (well... more next year, but let's say 1,500) then a complete set of cards would stand 1.2m high.

The catch would be getting the photos submitted and cards printed in time for regionals. For instance, our robot did not have decals on it until we got to Portland, and then changed out one manipulator when we got to Seattle.

But now we have good photos.

So perhaps it would make sense to sell the 2008 cards at the 2009 regionals. It will still be difficult, however, to get quality photos of all 1,500 teams, but even if only half the teams submitted photos it would be kind of fun, especially as teams traded and swapped to get "their own" cards. For once I would feel sorry for 1114 as their robot would be likely to be in wee bit higher demand than ours!

Jason

P.S. Just an addendum... as the discontinuation of the "Behind the Design" series of books shows, FRC is still not quite "big" enough to support some of the commercial ventures of professional sports. Something like this would require a careful business plan if it were intended to generate revenue.

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im thinking we should sell the 2008 cards at the 2008 off season events, and local 2009 kickofs, and at the regionals, if there were extra manufactured, then the remaining can be sold at championships. this way, we can get some rare cards made, ie: CCA winner cards or cards for other awards at championships etc.