About using pipes as a game piece. In Israel we hold each year a preparatory competition for teams called Falafel, this gives team a chance to practice another (more laid back) build season. Last year our game piece was PVC pipes and it was a great success for the following reasons
- Very cheap
- very easy to find
- Can handle rough contact from robots
- New challenge for FRC teams but it does have a few known solutions in the outside world
We got great feedback from teams about this game piece and it'd be pretty cool if FIRST used a similar game piece in the future.
If anyone is interested here are some videos from the final matches of the competition (The goal was to move as many pipes to the goals on the other end of the field and then hang during the end game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpn_...DdAEER10c1ejz9