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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Advance Material List for the 2005 Competition Now Available!

Yes this field uses substantially less material than the 2004 BOM required.

I can see the caps acting as almost a ladder rung retainer (if the pipe were penetrating wood on both ends, then capped on the outsides)

I'll bet the box will house a battery powered portable and durable beacon for field use - or have something to do with the magnet trigger

I'll bet that 12x12 lexan is a pressure plate, possibly a base as in "baseball"

and the magnet will be used in a triggering device on that plate, wired up to something that would trip a feature?

those (2) 3x? 8' long boards seem like a pedestal thats capped with the 4x8 plywood and layered with the 1/4" to brace the penetrated PVC.

One bold prediction is the lack of large field objects might mean an abundance of game pieces. Man I hope the people who said baseballs weren't right.

I think were making some sort of basket or ladder thing on top of the very low (2 1/2" high maybe) pedestal to collect said game pieces.

this clear field is also a good indicator of 6 bots at a time, to give more playing room.

Although it's safe to assume this is enough equipment for you to build test features and not necessarily full playing field objects.

I think the chain link is just to throw us off.

BTW I just happen to have a purple piece of clear film, which I looked through at the BEHR yellow sample color on the white background, and it made no difference, it just gave everything a purple hue but i still saw yellow and white and everything else
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