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I just don't know where FIRST is going to find nearly 1000 tennis balls per regional. (at least enough for the 8 or so traveling regional) Did they get some deal with the USopen? haha. But yea, thinking big, I like this for a recreation of Maize Craze.

I'll work on some more of these ideas and this track of thinking.

As for Squares, Im not sure what would be a good item other then PVC cubes. Hmm... Maybe bring back Tetras? Or something new? I've always wanted to see those big water jugs you have on water coolers.

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Sterilite containers lined with concrete or polycarb to protect against breaking.

*ducks the wrath of anybody around in 2003*

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Well, what kind of game pieces have they used over these 20 years? Balls, tetras, discs, the plastic bins for 2003, _____? I mean I would have to think that 95% of the FIRST games have used balls, if so, I would bet this year would be a game with balls as its game piece.

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*throws a tetra in your direction*

:p

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what would be worse is being on the field reset crew :)

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Yea...A shame for me that Field Reset is my favorite position to be volunteering in.

It wouldn't be the same as loose tennis balls, but if the tennis balls were cut in half and then glued or nailed onto large boards - you'd have a very bumpy surface to have a robot traverse.

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More like 75%
We have had balls three years in a row. We haven't had 4 ball oriented games in a row since the first 6 games. Time for a change

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Naah - picking up a hundred tennis balls is easy - just ask any Tennis Pro: They have devices for this.

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I dont know if this has been mentioned yet but there was an arcade game in the 80's called loco-motion!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loco-Motion_(arcade_game)

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The real challange would be to get them spread out evenly again for the reset, assuming that they are a part of the playing field and not a game piece.

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Well, one thing we all know is the value of time in the competition. If time is spent herding cats (balls on the loose) then time is lost, eaten up, gone, aloha. Mark Koors would not be happy and we can't have that.

Jane

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I didn't see that one yet...

But if that's what the game hint refers to, the GDC is even more insane and evil than we thought they were.

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That would be a pretty interesting game. Having to change the track direction of a continuously moving train to your side of the field so that your robots and human players could score points by getting the game pieces(Passengers) into the cars behind the engine.

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Not sure if this has already been said, but since the girl is holding on to the column, the game could be somewhat similar to the FTC game this year, which has PVC batons as game pieces. We could have a similar game piece to them.

Then again, this game hint probably doesn't tell us anything or mean anything to us until we've actually seen the game animation. and usually the game hints only have something to to with a small part of the game. The 2009 hint was just talking about the slippery surface, and the 2010 hint was just a piece of the ball return. It's rare that the game hint actually reveals something as important as the game piece.

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Kind of like the staircases at Hogwarts...