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Well, let's go to our friends, Wikipedia and Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011

2011 is...
...the UN's declared International Year of Forests, and International Year of Chemistry.
...the 10th anniversary of 9/11 (and yet, there are two towers on the game field THIS year)
...the 100th anniversary of the Indy 500
...the 150th anniversary of MIT

If anyone decides to actually heavily research events, be on the lookout for other 20th anniversaries :P

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I do not think they will use MIT, since it would be to partial towards one school. However I would love to see what they would do as an anniversary for MIT.

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I'm always down for another ball game.

Water polo anyone?

Seriously, I would really love seeing a water game, though it should never happen.

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It better be easy on autonomus robots...

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For what it's worth, the FRC competition is actually based on an MIT class called 2.007. All MIT engineers (or at least the ones I know) are required to take it, and way back yonder it was taught by Dr. Flowers.

For the record, I want my mobile goals back (see 2004, 2002, 2001). Trailers were cool, but it was more fun when we could fight over them. :)

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Mobile goals were great for my team in 2004. We were dedicated to latching on, and made sure no one could score past us. We got all the way to Newton,a nd were seeded number 1 until our driver train broke.

I hope that they come up with a new mechanic, since each year there will be a way to totally own the game [469], and I would like to come up with a new way to do it!

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FIRST is moving the champs to St. Louis because of it's proximity to the Mississippi River. It's going to be a robot regatta, of course!

Water games aside, though, I think the only way to know for sure would be to kidnap Dave Lavery. (Note: I am not liable for any criminal or civil charges acquired in the process of kidnapping Dave Lavery. Please do not kidnap Dave Lavery.)

Lets see...
30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch
20th anniversary of the announcement of the Internet
20th anniversary of the announcement of Linux
20th anniversary of the invention of carbon nanotubes

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haha! everyone will be required to bring a robot that can perform hijacks :D

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Maybe we will have to build an indy car that can do something they do at MIT.

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Hm...Forests relate to the environment, and that sounds like a theme that is right up FIRST's alley. And so is Chemistry.

9/11 is too touchy of a topic.

I think '08 was really close to racing and I think that's as close as we're gonna get.

And I don't know what they can do with MIT. I mean, that doesn't narrow it down that much, MIT is involved in nearly everything.

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Maybe... Teams have to arrange objects labeled with elements to form cellulose. Bonus points for climbing a real tree in the middle of the field.

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I think we would have a riot on our hands

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What ever the game may be I just want a scoring system that works, a scoring system were people can just understand after watching one match, a scoring system where teams don't score on them selves then ill be happy with what ever the game is. :)

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The current scoring system doesn't work?

1 pt for a goal. 2 pts for a hang. 3 points for a suspend.

Seems simple and works.


... now if you are talking about the seeding system ... well, just consider it another challange and another thing to overcome (or at least read that section before your first regional :ahh: )

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My only problems are...

-the ball return action that can produce a lot of penalties by a small accident
-the seeding system

These are the only things, in my mind, that need to be modified for next year.