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Re: 2013 season

I will not guess at what this years game will be, but what I would love to see is a robot game equivalent of "shoot the moon". This was a toy when I was a kid that had a large metal ball about the size of a pinball that rode up two steel rods.
The rods were sloped up to where the user held them so to get the ball to climb you had to spread the rods out. But if you went too far the ball dropped into a low scoring bin. It took just the right balance to get the ball to climb, and your reflexes had to be even faster as you got higher. Google "Shoot the Moon toy" if you have never seen one. I can imagine a large version of this that required one robot to load at the far end while another robot operated the levers. Perhaps with the levers spring loaded to require cooperation.
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