Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

New Bill's Blog, interesting stuff.

http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2011...-say-pool.html

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

Interesting read for sure. This could be interesting! :)

I like the idea of changing the times or something. Something new would be fun :)

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

A "pool of ideas"... "certain items under certain conditions"... "playing around with the field configuration"... just starting to work on contracts with venues...
WATER GAME! :ahh:


Sorry, Bill is baiting us, and someone had to say it.

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

Every year a water game is speculated but it really would be AWESOME.

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

I've been thinking about a hockey-based game... maybe a frozen pool? :cool:

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

The mention of field configuration and game length seems interesting in possibilities for next year.

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

For all those that werent happy with the spacing at CMP this year, and the fact that we will still be in St. Louis for a couple more years at least.............imagine a smaller, different playing field? Now, all of the fields will fit in the dome.:ahh:

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

Where do the St. Louis Blue's play?

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

I like the mention of field configuration and game length. A slighly longer game, hopefully without an obtainable maximum score, would be pretty cool. As long as a fully charged battery lasts, I see no reason not to extend the game length a little. I also wonder about field configuration. It seems like crowding has been a problem in the past, I wouldn't mind seeing a slighly bigger field (I don't know how this impacts moving fields from place to place, cost of events, time to set up etc., but a biiger field would certainly be interesting).

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

Someone please explain to me again what the rush is with next year's game?

I'm sure I'm missing something.

Jane

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

smaller fields means more of them could fit in the same fixed amount of space at championships. a fix for the problem of cmp capacity perhaps?

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

They want to finish the 2012 game early so they can start on the 2013 game.

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

Its called withdrawals already from the 2011 season.
Some of us like torture all year round, missing out on family time, hanging out with friends, taking a break, etc.:)

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

As far as I know, the plan is to finish the game sooner so they have more time to go through the rules and test fields, hopefully alleviating some of the issues/confusion in the rules and ironing out some technical difficulties the 1st week competitions usually experience.

Re: Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"
 

I don't think its necessarily to start on the next game, but so that they can test the games as much as possible, so there wouldn't be the many issues in Week 1 as there were this year, like what happened with minibot towers.