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No in CA we call it a cone zone.

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Cone Zone with Barrel Bullies.

Object of the game is to find a retrieve cones launched into the playing field and stack them in your home zone. Bonus if you cover your cones with a large traffic barrel.
Format Change:
All bots at a regional play at the same time to truly get that traffic jam level of frustration. Matches extend from the typical 2 minutes to 20 minutes, but there will only be 2 minutes of moving spread out over the 20 minute period.:mad:

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Double the bonus if you can stop Albert the Road Barrel from moving your stack...

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You'll need at least a few robots designed to wave a traffic flag or lean on a shovel in the end zone to play the cone game. :D

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It wouldn't be right to leave out the caution saw horse whose only purpose seems to be to partially block a closed lane, or rather, open lane, adding confusion when it is supposed to add direction and flow. The traffic flag laying on its side could add to the direction/flow/confusion/blockage - then the caution saw horse would serve its purpose, fully.

I think.

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so do saw horses wear horse shoes?

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though the last few years have seen the main object as a ball, it isn't any less likely to be a ball this year. The ball is a fundamental piece of many internationally acclaimed games and hundreds more unofficial.

On the subject of the game, every year I think, "how can they ever make it better than last year?" and every year, they do. :)

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As a matter of fact, that is not the case. Take a good look at the games for the past several years. I can only think of one time there's been two or more "ball" games in a row, and that was 2000-2002. Since then, crates, balls, tetras, balls, pool tubes, balls. Before then, similar pattern.

Analysis indicates that we're due for a non-ball year.

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that's a good observation but whether or not there was a ball last year for the game does not affect whether or not there is a ball this year. Its all up to FIRST.

Though, I do hope the pattern stays true. :)

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I was thinking frisbees might be fun.
At any rate, I'm hoping for something we have to launch into the air.

EDIT:
We could be required to skip a frisbee-like gamepiece off water. Say each gamepeice has a name printed along the rim, and we have to skip each gamepiece accross the water a number of times before we can let it sink to the bottom of the pool. Points would be allocated for skipping the gamepieces, but most of the points would be in sinking the gamepiece at the appropriate time. The autonomous period at the beginning would be dredging the frisbees out of the bottom of the pool (the pool would only be a meter in depth).

Re: an unusual observation
 

I was remembering that earlier this year, Dave posted a picture of a glass of water on a pair of Mars bars. Twice. That must be a...










...Game Hint!

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You wish......it probably had more to do with the discovery of water on Mars!

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Aha! Confectionary contest! I like it!

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haha!

Well, we'd have to round them up.

(Thought you threw me a curve, didn't ya? :))

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There has been a pattern? Awww, crap. Now we have to start the design all over again....


-dave



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