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EricH 05-11-2010 00:13

Re: 2011 Red Herring #1
 
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Originally Posted by alicen (Post 979712)
Going off some of the other ideas..

When I was in elementary school we played a game called "trash" where we would be split into two teams and each confined to our side of the line in the middle of the gym. When the coach shouted go, we would all race around trying to throw these balls from our side to the other side. The team with the most "trash" on their side at the end would lose.

Imagine a wall in the middle of the field, about three feet high or so, made of polycarbonate and the robots had to throw as much of their game pieces over the wall as possible. Maybe there would even be one opposing robot in your zone to make things interesting.

Just an idea really :)

Clean Sweep, a VEX Robotics Competition game. Now scale it up...

Cyberphil 05-11-2010 00:28

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Hmm, interesting. . . Do you think FIRST would really use essentially the same game as the VRC? I would sure hope not. That does not make for much fun or innovation at all.

I think it would be a fun game, but it would be defeating the purpose of being on an FRC team.

I have more faith in FIRST than that, and I am sure they will come up with a fun and competitive game no matter what.

BJC 05-11-2010 00:48

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You guys are pretty much exactly describing the 2010 OCCRA robotics game. Except theres abunch of 10in balls and a 5ft chain link wall with a ramp in the middle to cross the the other side of the field. Balls are worth 1 on the other side of the field and there are also bonus balls which are worth 3 points. There is even clean sweeps. Actually the comp season is right now and its pretty fun to watch. Might be some videos on youtube. But anyway, the FIRST game probably wont be one that has recently been used in two other seperate robot games. Just saying.

HumblePie 11-11-2010 06:39

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Given how cryptic these things have been in the past, here goes some speculating from a newbie on this board..........

I don't think the tennis ball is meant to be a direct clue to the game pieces or the field. That would be too easy. I am, however, intrigued by the "Penn" label since they could have chosen any manufacturer, so why this one?

How about the fact that the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1740, so no anniversary there) was founded by Ben Franklin. Franklin Sports markets sporting goods equipment for hockey, baseball, and football to name a few.


This is as far as I can go, and still probably a reach for this early in the season.

Dustin Shadbolt 11-11-2010 17:54

Re: 2011 Red Herring #1
 
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Originally Posted by HumblePie (Post 980461)
Given how cryptic these things have been in the past, here goes some speculating from a newbie on this board..........

I don't think the tennis ball is meant to be a direct clue to the game pieces or the field. That would be too easy. I am, however, intrigued by the "Penn" label since they could have chosen any manufacturer, so why this one?

How about the fact that the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1740, so no anniversary there) was founded by Ben Franklin. Franklin Sports markets sporting goods equipment for hockey, baseball, and football to name a few.


This is as far as I can go, and still probably a reach for this early in the season.

Nice thinking. I was kind of wondering if the PENN part was the message.

HumblePie 12-11-2010 11:18

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Here's another "Penn" connection....

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno just celebrated a Div I record 400th win in college football. Didn't I see others discussing the significance of the number "4" ? Could the "diabolical twist" refer to the spin required to throw a football accurately?

Just sayin.........

pandamonium 18-11-2010 09:05

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bill's blog yesterday said that they had just come up with the name and that game "hints" plural would be beginning soon. So the pen conection probably is a stretch especially if they didn't finish the game name yet.

rsisk 18-11-2010 11:24

Re: 2011 Red Herring #1
 
Combining the "blue cake" hint from another thread with the previous "red-herrings" could mean we are going to a 4-alliance competition. Instead of just Red Alliance/Blue Alliance we will now have the....

1. Blue Cake Alliance
2. Red Herring Alliance
3. Yellow Fuzzy Alliance
4. and one more alliance just waiting to be announced...

Taylor 18-11-2010 11:49

Re: 2011 Red Herring #1
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by rsisk (Post 981210)
Combining the "blue cake" hint from another thread with the previous "red-herrings" could mean we are going to a 4-alliance competition. Instead of just Red Alliance/Blue Alliance we will now have the....

1. Blue Cake Alliance
2. Red Herring Alliance
3. Yellow Fuzzy Alliance
4. and one more alliance just waiting to be announced...

4. Green Lantern Alliance

dodar 18-11-2010 12:33

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OMG! Four-Square with tennis balls!!!

JaneYoung 18-11-2010 12:37

Re: 2011 Red Herring #1
 
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Originally Posted by pandamonium (Post 981195)
So the pen conection probably is a stretch especially if they didn't finish the game name yet.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the GDC agrees on the name of the game challenge.

pandamonium 18-11-2010 13:35

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Jane even if they gave us any of the past few game names how many people would have guessed even close? actually they would be better off giving us the name then the hints.
Break away? come on that game could have had a better name then that

other than Aim High that one is pretty obvious

Ryan Caldwell 18-11-2010 13:42

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The picture on Bills Blog has the GDC on stairs...The bump was good fun maybe this year its steps.

The tennis ball has no scale...it could be 1" or 12" dia.

And i don't think there will be less that 6 robots on the field at a time after all the energy put into trying to increase the # of games each team plays.

JaneYoung 18-11-2010 13:52

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^ I don't believe that is a photo of the GDC.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pandamonium (Post 981220)
Jane even if they gave us any of the past few game names how many people would have guessed even close? actually they would be better off giving us the name then the hints.
Break away? come on that game could have had a better name then that

other than Aim High that one is pretty obvious

I wasn't thinking of the actual name, I was thinking of the process of a group of people arriving at the name. Especially clever people who love plays on words. It was a humorous thought. Sorry to be so silly in a red herring thread.

Jane

P.S. I thought Breakaway was a great name and the game logo was awesome.

blackiceskier 18-11-2010 14:44

Re: 2011 Red Herring #1
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by rsisk (Post 981210)
Combining the "blue cake" hint from another thread with the previous "red-herrings" could mean we are going to a 4-alliance competition. Instead of just Red Alliance/Blue Alliance we will now have the....

1. Blue Cake Alliance
2. Red Herring Alliance
3. Yellow Fuzzy Alliance
4. and one more alliance just waiting to be announced...

The green alliance is going to be next. They are going to have 4 alliances again referring to the leftover lights from the Diabolical Dynamics game in 2001 where they had 4 alliances, but this time around they are going to be alliances of 2 per color putting 8 teams on the field at once instead of the current 6 so that teams have more field time. This would make for an interesting elimination tree though.

Teams start making 2 more color bumpers in addition to the ones you have from breakaway :D


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