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Originally Posted by Katy
I read through FIRSTwiki but there is very little information about those robots. They don't appear to be designed to affect gameplay much...did they? If so how were the bots kept neutral...I am sure at some point it sat in a spot where somebody would have liked to be. How were they maintained? In short does anybody have any further information on previous house robots?
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Here are two pictures of the vacuum placebo robot from 1997. If you want more information about placebo robots, please see
this thread, where Andy Grady recently enlightened us about the history of placebo robots in FIRST.
I don't know if anyone else noticed it, but in the Montana state flag, there are three plateaus, with the highest at the left, and the lowest at the water. Does this mean anything about the game? Will we see the return of stairs?
Also, despite pool noodles being cheap, they will probably never be used. If you thought seeing PVC tetras fall apart was bad, the utter cataclysmic anhiliation of pool noodles would totally dwarf it.
Although it may not seem like it, to build a full-size tetra for the 2005 game cost anywhere from $10-15 each. While redeeming gift cards at
D.ick's Sporting Goods today, I noted the cost of the generic footballs at $11.99. So the price of a football would not be that bad. Footballs would also be almost indestructible. It would be very hard to try to pop one, although not impossible.
Another thing that we need to consider when thinking about playing field objects is the "cool" factor. The GDC would not pick something that an audience would not deem to be "cool". Footballs would definitely satisfy. So would balls, including soccer balls, kickballs, and large balls, etc. Tetras could be considered cool looking.
Also, I like the "green" as refering to money (aka points). This can mean that something high[er] could be worth more points? Is this like the 2005 game, where the highest tetra owns the stack? Or does this mean that something up higher than the rest of the field will be worth more points (like a high goal, or a hanging bar)?
If only all this food for thought happening in this thread could somehow be funneled into solving world hunger...
