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Re: [BB] 1906 Teams and Counting

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Originally Posted by thefro526 View Post
My preferred method is to bombard anyone I know at kickoff with text messages. Usually they're pretty good at getting the answers within an hour or so of unveil.
A couple of years back, The Blue Alliance posted videos on the Manchester Kickoff field showing the interaction of certain elements. (I want to say Rack 'N Roll, but it's been a minute.)

If FIRST or some third party were to post those kinds of videos, it would be a Good Thing for those of us whose field elements are cobbled together no matter how closely we followed the drawings. Obviously, I don't know what the world would want to see because I don't know the game. The GDC can make their best guesses, but they too are human.

Does anyone know if a field is assembled at FIRST Place at that point in the year? This plus a mechanism to figure out the biggest requests (What do goal kicks with some heat on them look like in Breakaway? How do the goals fill up in Lunacy? How do the 2011 game pieces bounce when chucked into play?) should allow anyone with a Flip camera to give a LOT more teams this level of information.
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