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Originally Posted by tondogone
The glow in the dark based game. There was a student who made his way into the Dean's List room at worlds, and one of the FIRST officials had stated that next year it will be a good idea to get a glow in the dark measuring tape. Also, Andymark just released a LED drive base kit to make your robots GLOW! .
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In addition, they gave all of the Dean's List Finalists/Winners bright yellow tape measures with LED Lights. Dean implied that they were hints for next year's game, and as a result, the Dean's List kids were all atwitter for about two weeks about a glow in the dark game, or IR tracking or a dark maze (a box that robots have to drive into to get across the field) or something.
However, after examining my tape measure, I've come to think that the LED light has more to do with tracking the retro-reflective tape they try to get us to use every year - a dark game would be just too terrible for spectators. It would completely contradict everything that was said at worlds about "Making it Loud," since no one would be able to see a dark field. Can you imagine scouting?
I've attached a picture of my tape measure, if anyone's curious...