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Lunacy had carpet. It was exposed around the borders of the field, as the FRP "regolith" didn't extend to the edges.

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Has no one seen the "Tidal Wave" in the third line? There's a stormy undercurrent in these posts... Perhaps one of the mysterious pallets contains large fans that blow around lightweight (but hopefully not very delicate) game pieces. Or it's a water game!

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Divide by 42... or 0... Ah crap that didn't help any, we still have too many choices.

Oh well, guess I'll know in January.

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Hmm, that's a ratio of 4lb game specific steel elements : 4.5lb game item one : 1lb game item two.

Does that mean that the amount of the first game item is going to weigh more than the steel elements? 0.o ::rtm::

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If memory serves me correctly, the field was carpeted then regolith was placed over it. That's why the regolith was 'squishy' when walked on.

Come on GDC, bring back regolith!

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The 19 fields number comes from Bill's Blog on September 15th, where he states that, "[w]e’re building two additional competition fields this year bringing the total number of fields on the road to 19..."

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Not necessarily, First Game Item could be a large quantity of something light, ie. A LOT of tennis balls, soccer balls, Overdrive balls

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The Israel and Hawaii fields do not also travel to mainland events. Last year, FIRST kept one field in a warehouse in the middle of the country as a contingency. Also, the Einstein field is not used previously. So, there's 4 fields needed in addition to the most simultaneous regionals.

On the other hand, the 17 fields that they had last year included the two FIM fields.

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26 lbs alone could equal 4421 ping pong balls (find the red one...).

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Or about 80 poof balls :)

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Keep in mind he specified the number of pallets used... Since pallets have a fairly standard size, and you can only stack things so high before it gets too dangerous to move the pallet, you could conceivably determine a total volume measurement for the game items. Combine that with the weight, and you can probably start to remove a lot of lighter-weight items from consideration.

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I knew about the carpet, but it seems reasonible that if they bought carpet tape then it would be used to cover mass amounts of carpet, not just the border of the field. As I see it, they wouldn't order an entire palette of carpet tape to just cover the border of the field.

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But arguably, if we determined total volume, we'd still need to be wary, because let's say the game pieces are something like Tetras, and come in pieces.

I say we just organize a top-secret raid into FIRST HQ one night.

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You've never put together an FRC field have you? It takes a lot of tape to cover even the border. It is also used to patch the field and secure down any errant sections of carpet. Basically, if it is carpet and needs to be secured at all you use a crap ton of tape.

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Carpet tape is used to hold the two large pieces of carpet together, goes underneath the carpet at the seam.

Gaffers tape is used to hold the carpet down (around the perimeter) and also for all the field markings (driver stations, lanes, etc...). It is all the visible tape.