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Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint

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yet it's important enough to the game that teams will need it after kickoff to test with.
As I see it, the only things the teams will have is the signal light, just like previous years. All of the rest will be buried in the field.
That was awkward phrasing on my part. I agree that most of the 2 500 amber lights are for the teams, and the rest belongs to FIRST.

What I meant to imply was that if the game pieces are small and need to be counted quickly (as suggested by the previous posters who noted the high-speed counters and photosensors with a narrow field of view), teams that want to practice effectively (which includes practice dealing with the quirks of the field) may want to replicate the scoring apparatus, electronics and all. (For example, during a simulated game, keeping track of the state of 200 small balls might be more difficult than the state of a couple dozen large ones, as we had in 2006.)

Of course, this is merely speculation. I do recognize that the narrow field of view of a photosensor can also imply game pieces of indeterminate size, close to the sensor.
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