Re: No really, what do you think the game will be like?
1. Goals with moveable castors.
2. Balls
3. Bins
4. Ramps
5. Railings
6. Carpeted field
7. Autonomous mode
8. Timers
9. Human players
10. Mesh wire and slippery plastic
My guess is a "game" similar to ice hockey. Played on a surface similar to the slippery surface at the top of the ramp last year. In this game the "autonobots" battle the human players for the giant puck. The humans are on small, wheeled carts similar to gym scooters (every school PE dept. has 2 dozen of these handy) and the 'bots scoot around using sensors. The humans are "steered" by commands generated over handheld devices (PalmPilot or Handspring). The "autonobots" see the pucks which are held in bins at the top of ramps. the idea is that within the 30 seconds the humans set out the bins, mount their scooters and whiz around the plastic suface dodging the bots and trying to stuff the scooters and the bins into the goals while the bots attempt to circumvent them. At the end the alliance with the greatest number of bins and scooters stashed in the goals wins. The remaining alliance must then play a winner-take-all match of either Chutes and Ladders or Yahtze to see who wins! That way there is always something going on for the crowd and your alliance is never out of contention.
Go Figure and see you Saturday!
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