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Anyone realize that there is a new electrical tram system on central ave. in Phoenix? That may be a good bet

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Ok Im on to something.

On Colorado Ave in Paramount, CA there is a machine shop called ZAMBONIS.

Im not sure, but maybe the game is styled after hockey. I mean think the person said lake minnetonka is big for ice fishing...the fish clue was meant to be a "red herring" to make us think of a water game, but maybe the fish is an OPA (sp) which is a fish that can get up to 200 pounds (the electrical system is REALLY heavy so the weight req. could go up) and six feet in length, but fish in markets are usually hung by their mouths so the height req. could go up to 6 feet again...

6 teams per alliance:

1 Goalie

2 or 3 defence

2 or 3 offence




Just a thought...

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I would like to revise my ice statement, while a slick surface could act as a buffer zone making it difficult to travel over it could be near impossible, calling for the other robots in your alliance to carry or build a bridge across said obsticle.

I think that is more in the sprit of first, you know having to support team mates, also incorporating a bridge into your robot...

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Not a bad theory except then you would need a robot that essentially could do nothing but be a bridge and the spirit of first is that any alliance no matter what robots are on it need to be capable of scoring.

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I do believe that there was such a robot a few years ago...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/12780
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/12786
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/12297
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/12299

That little tie-dyed ramp is, in fact, a robot. It was fully capable of scoring--balancing goals on the bridge was a very good way to score that year. But it was "only" a ramp.

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And this little ramp bot won at BAE and ended up 5th on Arcimedes a few years ago.

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So good in fact, it came in 2nd place overall at the championship event, & was the Archimedes Division champion.
Team 111
2001 NAT National Finalist
2001 NAT Division Champion - Archimedes


Other robots were ramps as well, including our first attempt at a robot that year.
Team 69 from MA was another.

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Most of the people here bring up some good points, though I do have a few concerns with some of them.

1) As for the weight and size limits I do believe that there are certain labour laws that require more the two people to life an object if it more the 150 Lbs, so they may have to take that into account when planning on robot design.

2) As for an ice surface, it would be very hard to do because of the cooling requirements. Even just a slick surface would be difficult as they would have to take into account the safety of the team members trying to place/retrieve their robot on/from the field as well as the field assembly and reset crew and the hazard of lose of control of some robots.

Those were just some of my thoughts.

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maby its a scavenger hunt to where we have to program our robot on a hybrid system to pick up a flag or object and return it to the starting point

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Evergreen in Dover, UK is along Slip Lane. I think ice is probably going to be part of the game.

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With the new Control System,
We were thinking it could be color sensored with the fish
like in the picture with picking up fish
because in Minnetonka is a fishing area just like the other clue


I don't know for sure but its probably an experiment with
all the new coding XD

however the new system weighs a ton!

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for the third line enter
"biopolymer plastic bottles"
into google, and find that the 6th entry is Nature Works plastics
15305 Minnetonka Boulevard
Minnetonka, MN 55345

now can someone decode the field shape for line 4??
;)

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There are at least two ice arenas located on Minnetonka Blvd in Minnetonka.

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that looks like jason morella in the background in the first pic.

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What if we need to "fish" an item off of the field and then put it into some sort of holder on our alliance's side of the field?