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Sean Raia

04-01-2012 19:21

Re: 'Flash' discussion

From what iv'e gathered the game will almost certainly involve slopes and speed.
As for the mysterious game piece... that elf hint may just help us there.
He had a hint tucked under his arm, now people have taken to the notion that footballs are not tucked under the arm. To change that notion, i present you with this!

Haha i know its nothing big, but the ball is indeed under his arm.

So we will be playing football on slopes? Yikes.

Christopher149

04-01-2012 19:27

Re: 'Flash' discussion

If you look at Ramp 'n Roll, there are slopes, and football-like goal posts.

Last year was a lot like rack n roll, so will this year be like ramp n roll?

om23	04-01-2012 19:28

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concerning the overall history of FIRST games, such as most of them are sports related or at least each alternating one is, the possibility of a football or rugby based game is not far-fetched. But using a football shaped ball would be incredibly difficult to use during game play due to the shape and size of the ball.

using mini-bots is a given for this year's game since first wants frc and ftc teams to work together just like last year.

Andrew Lawrence

04-01-2012 19:31

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Originally Posted by om23 (Post 1096426)

using mini-bots is a given for this year's game since first wants frc and ftc teams to work together just like last year.

While that was their intention, in the end, most teams didn't interact with FTC teams, and the ending minibots resembled little to no Tetrix parts that didn't resemble FTC robots. And from one team I talked to, the FTC team wasn't much help, since they were also as to how to approach the problem.

I'm sure that if FIRST does indeed want us to collaborate more with FTC teams, then it seems like they will have to alter the way we use the minibots into something more FTC-like.

Tom Ore

04-01-2012 19:48

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Storm (from earlier blogs) + flash = wind and artificial lightning

two robots try to race across the field with open umbrellas and the third waves a golf club in the air to attract the lightning.

Karibou

04-01-2012 19:49

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Thoughts:

Hot flash - aspects of the game change suddenly, but in an organized/fair fashion. Example: game would start out with one alliance scoring on each side, then halfway through the alliances would switch which side they scored on. If you want to throw peaks/uUu into there, imagine applying this to Aim High.

Muzzle flash - shooting game? Shooting at light?

om23	04-01-2012 19:54

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Remember this? It was on Bill's blog a while ago.

Quote:

This is going to be a heavy field to set up when all is said and done. Our pallet jacks can handle up to 5,000lbs in a single load and the engineering staff tell me we’ve been pushing the jacks to their limit recently. At the moment we have an estimated 8,000lbs of polycarbonate sheets, four 1,000lb pallets of game specific steel elements, a pallet of aluminum, three 1,500lb pallets of a game specific item plus a fourth 1,000lb pallet of a different game specific item, two full pallets of gaffers tape, an entire pallet of carpet tape and multiple pallets of game pieces. None of which takes into account the existing field components we will be bolting, zip tying and otherwise attaching these items onto or the elements that have not been delivered yet.

Andrew Lawrence

04-01-2012 19:55

Re: 'Flash' discussion

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Originally Posted by Karibou (Post 1096463)

Maybe it's a hint that the game will be similar to Aim High (I hope so! :D)! What you said both describes the hints and Aim high, so maybe it's something similar!

Got it!

AIM LOW! :p

Sean Raia

04-01-2012 20:00

Re: 'Flash' discussion

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Ore (Post 1096461)

Storm (from earlier blogs) + flash = wind and artificial lightning

two robots try to race across the field with open umbrellas and the third waves a golf club in the air to attract the lightning.

HAHAHAHA! Just picturing this made me laugh, i love the idea.

Christopher149

04-01-2012 20:03

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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 (Post 1096468)

Maybe it's a hint that the game will be similar to Aim High (I hope so! :D)! What you said both describes the hints and Aim high, so maybe it's something similar!

Looking at old pictures, Aim High looks to be one of the few games with a large amount of non-base field polycarb.

om23	04-01-2012 20:04

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Originally Posted by Tom Ore (Post 1096461)

Storm (from earlier blogs) + flash = wind and artificial lightning

Haha thanks for using my team's name (STORM)!

Sean Raia

04-01-2012 20:09

Re: 'Flash' discussion

Anyone up for calculating the similarity between ~210 lbs of steel (4,000 pounds / 19 fields) and however much Aim Highs fields had? :rolleyes:

johnr

04-01-2012 20:10

Re: 'Flash' discussion

The Three Flashes were a back-up group for Frank Sinatra, who was part of the Rat Pack and rats run thru mazes and ..... never mind.

IndySam

04-01-2012 20:12

Re: 'Flash' discussion

Flash Dance - Water Game!

Steven Donow

04-01-2012 20:13

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Quote:

Originally Posted by johnr (Post 1096489)

The Three Flashes were a back-up group for Frank Sinatra, who was part of the Rat Pack and rats run thru mazes and ..... never mind.

And rats drink water? Water game? Flash Flood?(I assume the flash flood joke has been made by now)

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