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Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint

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Originally Posted by Mr B View Post
The sensors do indicate that there will be some sort of flying object to be counted (I'm so happy). I wonder if they will finally use footballs. For years Dean has mentioned that FIRST is modeled after professional sports, and he sometimes references the NFL. A football throwing game would be both a challenge and a blast to play. Poof balls would be safe, but I do remember shredding several of them during Aim High. All of our practice balls ended up looking like asteroids.
I have often thought about using footballs as well. The problem is, I struggle to think of reliable ways to count footballs using this hardware (they don't roll through counter chutes the same way as a round ball). If I were the GDC and I wanted to use footballs, I would probably design the game around static scoring.
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