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Originally Posted by Wayne TenBrink
I would like to see a game with hollow cylinders. For example, a 24" long section of 6" PVC drain pipe, etc. Length, diameter, material, and weight could be whatever works for the game. There could even be multiple size game pieces.
There are several ways to pick up a cylinder, so we would see a variety of new and reconfigured manipulator concepts. Orienting the manipulator/chassis to pick up a cylinder and then reorienting the game piece to release it for scoring would require some fresh thinking. Multi-piece handling would be even more ambitious.
The game could reward the ability to control and orient the game piece when released - lowest points for pushing them into a low goal, more for depositing them randomly in an elevated goal, more points still for stacking them like logs, even more for hanging them on pegs, etc.
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Using PVC pipe as a game piece has already been done by FTC in 2010 with "Get Over It" and I have to say that the execution was particularly bad. Few teams could actually pick up and score the game pieces. I remember being in the division near the FTC field while playing Logomotion. Watching those FTC elims matches was painful .
Not saying that FIRST can't do it right, but I'm just sharing my experiences.