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What do u mean i the ball return action requires perfection? it seamed pretty simple and straight forward to me... mabye im not understanding what your talking about:confused:

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I probably worded it wrong. It seems that a lot of penalties are coming from not returning the ball in time. Our team has lost a match or two because of ball return penalties, and I see it happen a lot of times. Sorry for the confusion. I'll edit that.

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I understand Crown Suppliers have a say in what might be included in subsequent games. This year there is a new Crown Supplier on the block that is very, ahem, involved with FRC...

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Andy Mark? :ahh:

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Oh ok i see. but i disagree still i think it just took some vigilance on the human players part. i think it adds to the stakes of the game. however, it is kinda depressing to lose a match because u didnt return a ball to the field ontime

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You know, if they made the teeth on their sprockets longer, and strung a whole bunch together, they could make a paddle wheel...

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I have a bad idea.

What if... Instead of waiting until next year January for build season, we started designing our own game? How much interest is there? If you're interested, PM me. Based on interest, we can go from there. Of course, we'll have to reuse the KOP from this year, I know my team has no money right now. (Business team takes the off season off. I dunno why.)

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i really want to see some sort of a king of the hill goal involved in a game. i know it in itself isn't deep enough but maybe if you did like multiple hills and which one to be on top of randomly switches throughout the game, and you combine some other elements or morph with a whole other game maybe.

i would also love to see a field dimension change although that would be pricey, i think a triangle could be pretty cool.

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I like the current field dementions as it makes for easy viewing. I like the idea of having multible completly different ways to score instead of just one way like most years (not counting bonuses).

Also next year probably won't use normal balls because they seem to rotate years.

2004: Stack Attack :balls
2005:Triple Play:tetras
2006:Aim High:balls
2007:Rack 'n Roll:tubes
2008:Overdrive: balls
2009:Lunacy: poof balls (kind of balls)
2010:Breakaway: balls
2011: ? :not balls

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Maybe with a third alliance... That has some potential. But a BJC said it would be hard to watch.

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With a third alliance on a triangle field anyone viewing the match would have to look over or through driver station windows that would cover the entire perimeter of the field. Nobody would really be able to see whats going on except the drivers:(

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circle feild?

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I think that would be a good idea, and I am interested. However I think that the logistics would be very difficult. yet doable, I think it would be a lot like organizing an off season event.

If we do this we should keep the game very simple and perhaps have a more drawn out build season so it is not as stressful as the normal build season.

who else is interested.

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Is there really anything stopping this from being a year round sport with the GDC creating spring game too? Or perhaps if the teams came up with it by themselves FIRST would alow teams to borrow the fields for compititions. This would make the next three years of my life! After all basketball, football, soccer, ect have off seasons where they practice. What if instead of teams pursuing their own off seasons projects, the GDC could give a problem that was kind of a lead in into the actual seasons game! This would be so sweet!!!:D :D :D

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Woah. I am most definatly liking where this is going. And I am most definatly interested in getting an off season competition going. Do I see a FIRST Robotics Competition rival 10, maybe 5 years down the road? perhaps FIRCDURC? (For Inspiration and Recognition of Chief Delphi Users Robotics Competition)