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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
Poof Footballs would make excellent gamepieces, IF human players are NOT permitted to touch them.
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It'd be cool if human players could touch them but you had to score on the same side of the field as your human player. That way the human player wasn't able to score. It be cool to see long distance reloading though.
Honestly, Soccer or hockey are the best sport to imitate with robots. No down time and a continuous match. A football only game doesn't seem like it would be a good game as footballs are very easy to make them go where you want. hockey would not use hockey pucks as they are very dangerous so the only thing I would think you could pull from hockey is the ice part, but because hockey players skate, the ice really isn't that big of an issue for them so really nothing can be incorporated that would make the game "obviously hockey." Football throwers already exist and would be easy to emulate. Accuracy of the shot wouldn't be hard as that's how footballs are designed. Soccer would be fun but as others have pointed out, it's been done before and unless they make it similar rules to Breakaway, where the ball can only go a little ways inside of the robot, then ball games are really over done. Most of them end up with people rebuilding older robots just slightly modified for the new game.
The best game would be something like this year where the game piece is weirder. Something of a shape we have never seen before that makes it hard to pickup and manipulate. Something like Tetras from before but different. Maybe something like a Penrose Triangle. These games may not be some of the most entertaining to watch but they are by far my favorite games.