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Re: No official FIRST game hint yet??

Bingo Jaine, you get a cookie. Whether this is the game or not, I don't think it matters if we nailed it on the head. Other than to have a little prior thought of it. The only way to make this knowledge worth while is if you could convince your whole team of it, and start brain storming now. Which likely will turn out a waste of time. Why risk it. But it's going to be interesting to look back on this thread and see how far we were off. This Ajunx guy did a good job coming up with this game. I like it.
I think the last donut on cancels out the ones below it, leaving whoever on top, and however many of that color down would count. Getting all the way across the field and on that pad will be a real pain in autonomous, I bet that won't happen too often. Considering all the collisions on the ramps during autonomous. Looks like the "box bots" could get the pucks close to the HP's for the donut toss, and then play a defense with the opponent pucks. Pulling those pucks over the ramps is quite a load. I can see some last minute bang ups keeping opponents from puck zone scores. Everyone will fight over the yellow donuts. I like how there's multiple ways to play this game.
Everyone will start autonomous, by dragging their goals across to the other side, then you'll see all these bots driving wildly all over the place hoping to hit the pressure pad (if they make it across). If they don't make it across, and they collide on the ramp, their timers will send them all over the ramp and off the field while it's hoping to hit the pad. Heh.
Then if you made it across, you can go for the donuts in the middle, first guy there will grab the yellows, and then hop on their puck.
Our old 1998 bot was a puck jumper, and would get it's belly on the puck, and then lift the rear wheels up at the last minute. That would be a good idea to be able to drive the puck around, and still be in scoring position at the last minute. I bet a lot of teams will drop a wheel like an outboard motor and drive that puck across while on it. I think a sickle shaped arm could scoop up these donuts from below, up over the pipe, and carry them like a torch to your puck, then invert the sickle to spill over the puck pipe. Just think how quick you could change the score by plopping a (your color) donut over a full rack of opponent yellows, and then pushing them out of the zone at the last minute (that's a valuable teammate).
Heh, I hope this is it, I'd like to see this game - looks fun and interesting.

edit: oops there are no ramps... yay!

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