Re: Next Year's Game?
 

I'd like to see a cube as a game peice, personaly. Maybe a dynamicly changing feild(height of sections, steepness of ramps, ect). Also maybe a diffrent feild shape, like a hexagon.

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As cool as it would be, the problem with a dynamic field is the cost to practice.

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Oh god...the thread is slowly growing faster...

Well, I'm guessing the game element will be a fragile object, but easily fixable. But at least we know one thing, the carpet's back!!!!!!!!! :D.

"We’ve laid out carpet salvaged from Championship and set up field #1" - Bill

CALLED IT!!!

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Crackerjack can also be a term for "crazy", which is what you guys are. Go take some time off from FIRST for a couple of months. You'll need it. Don't believe me? You will in a few years.

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To be fair there was even carpet this year. They just put the regolith on top of it. I don't see them using anything other than carpet though. Every other surface seems to be similar to carpet or regolith, either low or high traction...

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they could take it to extremes and cover the field in ice :P

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Logistically speaking, ice would be a pain in the butt to maintain, probably harder than a water game, or what not, but it's a nice thought.

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if we can build a ski resort in the middle of a desert, we can maintain ice
http://www.skidubai.com/

:P

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Good old Dubai...you gotta love their projects.

I like the dynamic field idea, but it's too impractical to do...maybe a game where the robots have to open a box of Crackerjacks and get the prize out, without crunching up the jacks, and putting them into a bowl?

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We also learned that the carpet is very absorbent. It can be moistened frequently without damage.

-dave



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... and so it begins :D




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Just think how much fun everyone would have if the game piece was squirt bottles.

So many options such as a fine mist or a straight zap.

So, I best mosey along now...

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look ma, it's a 2010 KOP item!

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Begins? You mean continues, don't you?

Oh, and Dave, I thought you were still hibernating. It's not the end of summer yet...:D

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mmmmmm....


The field reset crews would love that:rolleyes: