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That was 1996. Years are important people!

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1997 was Torroid Terror, which led to the "No intentional detachment" rule due to some teams scoring using parts of their robots that detached.

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After a very long and thorough discussion on our team, we came to the conclusion that some of the categories were lacking, so we slightly changed the categories to fit everyone's interests :D

Games: all about FRC games, ranging from rules, names, and various other game related topics; example: Hexagon Havic was played in what year? (1996)
Technically Speaking: questions about engineering, programming, robot specs, gear ratios, etc.; example: What were the dimension restrictions for the 2009 game Lunacy? (38" by 28" by 60")
Miscellaneous: anything FIRST related; includes the media and pop culture categories; example: What company does Dean Kamen work for? (DEKA)
Non-Technical: Questions about anything not relating to the robot, including common knowledge, awards criteria, and anything else FIRST related (primary focus is awards criteria); example: What percentage must your website score to get website excellence? (80%)
All About FIRST: Questions about/relating to FIRST; example: What year was FIRST founded? (1989)
Go Teams!: all about teams, with special emphasis on their accolades and achievements; example: the first team to win the chairman's award* was who? (191 X-Cats, 1992)
*RCA wasn't introduced until 10 years later, thus the national chairman's award was the only chairman's award

I hope these are better :)

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Those look pretty good but why is there an asterisk after chairman's award?

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On the contrary - I believe this is doable:
I feel like Trivial Pursuit could only be played by FIRST-ers... but I do like it. I think a category for every team is a difficult one and rookie teams will be uninformed and left out... maybe the only team to win National Chairman's or stuff that's like - indesputable - but categories are difficult to make that remain applicable.

Recalling Game Rules excludes teams who did not play that game... Maybe include founder facts - things not everyone would know but, they'd be equally uninformed. Thus, everyone would learn...

Speaking of Monopoly:
If you made Monopoly... FIRSTers would appreciate it but anyone could play it. You could make properties Regionals and Boardwalk could be Nationals... the pieces could be the robots from the animations and Chance and Community Chest cards could be based on rule violations and winning awards and such (and have other names I haven't thought of.)

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You could make Chance and Community Chest into Red Alliance and Blue Alliance and railroads could be FIRST founders.

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The railroads could be Divisions from the Championships. :)

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It would make more sense, in my opinion (at the risk of some drama) to make the color groups teams rather than regionals. Regionals aren't bad, though. As long as the Oranges are the best. :D

I was thinking railroads would equal drive systems (skid steer / mecanum / holonomic / swerve) but I like divisions better :D

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"Go" could be kickoff and free parking could be the pit area and have a robot instead of a car on the space. But what about jail and "go to jail"??

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Go to jail= Penalty box?

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How about making jail the offseason? And then there are the utilities...

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I was thinking that IRI would actually be Park Place, with Championship being Boardwalk. What else can compare?

Utilities could be... motors? KOP stuff? cnc machines?

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How about FTC and FLL for utilities? Or if you want to stick with FRC for the game, then it could be pit admin and scoring table...Or you could keep electric company and change water works to metal works...

For pieces, there could be safety glasses, a robot, and then maybe some game pieces from past games.

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Free Parking – Pit area
Go to Jail – Go to penalty box
Jail – Penalty box
Go – Kickoff
Community Chest – Red Alliance
Railroads – Divisions from the Championships
Chance – Blue Alliance
Electric Company – Cost of new tools and stuff
Income Tax – Registration payment
Luxury Tax – Team shirts
Water Works – Lunch/food for those all day builds!
Houses – Nut or bolt
Hotels – Gear
Game Pieces – Safety glasses, screwdrivers, a punch, drill, wrench, hammer, ect…