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Re: FRC Role Playing Game
This may not be exactly the same thing as you're speaking of, but many teams after kickoff will use people as robots to play the game (even better if you have a practice field and elements). We have our kids pretend like they are robots in the game, to bring about things we may not have realized without doing this. They run into each other, push each other, score points, move fast/slow, block scoring, etc., and it's very useful.
Other teams create a miniature model of the game with mini robots and play it, then use it for strategy decisions.
All these things help with robot design and concept, as well as strategy concepts.
I'm sure doing this before Atlanta helps that much more by already knowing many of the existing strategies and robots. But it's something you can apply to kickoff as well. Having game elements is very benficial, but it can still be helpful without. We just use the game rules as we know them.
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