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Re: FIRST 101 [11/25/05]
Yeah, in '93 there were a lot of robots that scooped up the little balls into a cage on top of their bot, drove into the bar where the goal was so that the top of their robot (where the balls were stored) would latch on to the bar, or fall off the bot, and slump into their goal. I know 45 did that along with many other teams. When I first saw that I thought "what the heck" becuase they just rammed straight into the bar... When I saw the top fall off, I thought.. huh.. cool.
The goals were... just a flat area where you could roll balls into (nothing to keep them from rolling back out), but an opponent could drive under the bar and pull them all out. But, teams got smart and would trap the opponent in their goal so they couldn't descore.
The Beatty bot (I believe) in Torroid Terror '97 was pretty cool, with the detachable device that allowed them to stack around 3-4 torroids on top of the goal... whereas without, you could get 1 on the top.
I also seem to remember seeing - some of the games you didn't need to really have the objects in the goal.. so long as they were above, or "within" the 3-d space above the goal, they counted. (the case with hex havoc?)
It's really interesting watching old matches/old games and seeing the creativity in how they interpreted rules, what they could/couldn't do, etc.
Neat to see the evolution of games, and pretty cool to see some of the ~ '87 MIT competitions that Woodie had in class.
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