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Football?

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Chexposito posted a re-link to bills blog making references to them liking it. they also seem to like the tubes shape tubes shape idea I wouldn't mind it switching as long as its something that's extremely similar but after teams doing this for 20 years they always will be able to make reference to games. ie 2011 to 2007s game. I would love a game like 08 or 06 it would be fun.

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As mentioned in previous posts, I would like to see hockey or football if it is a sport. However, both games would be similar to breakaway...at least in my mind...

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Until they actually use them, I'm sticking with Cones as the game piece. They're cheap, durable, come in a WIDE VARIETY, and darn hard to manipulate in some cases.

Cones that float on water, used for water polo.

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I think a game that involves the field shooting balls out, and the robots hitting them them into long bins across the field without the other alliance catching them, just like baseball. Frisbees would also be pretty cool game pieces.

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Nobody has mentioned baseball I don't think, Football is another type of ball game, and i have noticed the games have been getting a lot less rough. I would be all for a Parkour game hahaha, that would be both exciting and fun to play since it would involve many obstacles. Isn't 2012 the year of the summer Olympic games? They may also try to base it off of something like that? Who knows. I also noticed Dean hinted in on Logomotion last year in ATL with the description of the FIRST logo, so if anyone else caught any hints this year, that would be great to know

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If I remember correctly I think it is, from Dean saying they are trying to integrate the FIRST programs (FRC, FTC, FLL, etc.). At least get them to work together more. Plus the Minibots did add an interesting element to gameplay


A maze game would be interesting, where a host bot(FRC) releases a minibot(FTC) into a maze that sits above or next to the main playing field. All along the way knocking something off of a ledge to the host bot which is then used to score.


Dean also put a lot of emphasis on how boeing had an unlimited KOP, no restrictions to what a minibot can be made out of next year?

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Everyone seems to have forgot the last 3 years themes...
2009 Moon landing anniversary
2010 World Cup
2011 First 20th anniversary
Whats happening in 2012?
-Leap year
-Destruction of Earth
-Summer Olympics in London
-any others?

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personally i would like to see a game that somewhat resembles Breakaway, especially since FIRST is trying to show that robotics is a sport too. Breakaway, I thought, simplified the entire aspect of robotics. Breakaway made the game more of a sport rather than a task that was done by robots. It had easy to follow scoring, a simple, exciting endgame, and allowed for simple robots to be useful which created more successful teams. (ex. a kit bot in 2011 couldn't do anything in the game resulting in a 2v3 match while in 2010 a kit bot could be a great defensive robot to the alliance)

So I'm in favor of a sport-like game for next year :)

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Summer Olympics => water sports => WATER GAME!

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My thoughts exactly!! :p

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Though I highly doubt a water game, I am looking forward to a sports-themed game. I completely agree with DSM33's post on how Breakaway brought FRC this much closer to being an actual sport. Our team has been trying to make robotics more popular by building robots that can play sports (to a point). We are currently in the process of making a bot that will have a large hopper in the back to catch footballs, and have a launcher, either pneumatic-powered or surgical tubing-powered (tell me which one we should use). We will then bring the robot out to games and catch footballs and launch them, as if we were playing a real game. It would all be controlled, but we were thinking of later on adding sensors so it could aim towards the field-goals and avoid opponents.

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2012=100 year anniversary of the Titanic = water game

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World Popluation is 7 billion(Technicaly late 2011 but thats still 2012 season).
Flying car reaches market.
100 year aniversery of Titanic sinking.
etc...

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I personally saw lunacy as a hockey type sport because of the floor and wheels. and logomotion was taken out of context because of the 20th anniversary. Hmm what sport would come after hockey and soccer?