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Originally Posted by mtaman02
You know A Thought came to mind while reading these posts & listening to Styx - Mr.Roboto, What if FIRST made 2 games for their 15 year anniversary. One for the first half of that year and another for the second half of the year. The First game will be decided upon by the Game Design Committee and would require 6 weeks of blood and sweat. The Second Game would be a voted decision made by the teams on which game should be replayed (namingly making it the best game FIRST has ever came up with that it needed to be replayed) The Regional Directors have the ultiumate decision if they would like to hold a second regional. Any of the robots may enter past and or current - provided they meet FIRST Rules and Regulations. There would be 6 Weeks of Build / Prep time and would start somewhere in May / June - that way teams have time to get materials to repair whatever damage was done at Nationals or to repair the past damages due to the robot being no longer needed. The Catch that only crosses my mind is that if the the game voted on is Autonomous Enabled Teams have the option to buy at IFI's discretion a current brand new controller setup at a discounted / full price. (Or if FIRST has chosen to do so; include with the entry fee and teams can have it mailed to their school, sponsor or robot building location for pickup and Since I do not know how well the Field Controller would be able to communicate with both PBasic and C++ Robot Controllers; that would also be a major deciding factor that would judge whether or not A complete overhaul of the teams competing Robot Controllers would be needed) Rules for that games robots would change to allow the old 3/8 & 1/2 Bosch Drill Motors and whatever motors were used in the past and to allow all the electrical components. Chances are LEDs may be shipped with new robot controllers - if they're still around that is and rules will also change to allow the rotating light and these items would be subtracted from the weight and be charged seperately. Would you the teams entering in it want to enter your old robots in to the competition (Robots 10 - 12 yrs old still working and competing in the FIRST Robotics Competitions like it where yesterday) - or - a different idea would be instead of hosting 2 games for a 15 yr anniversary, 1 game would be chosen from the past by either FIRST or the Teams to be replayed under the same robot guidlines said above. Except Build season would be under the normal timeline that exists now.
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If either of those ever happened I hope it'd be the first one. One of the great things about FIRST is that they DON'T repeat the same game year after year. If they did do a throwback game I could see many teams analyzing the most successful robot from that year and just doing slight variations of it.
Now if they did a "throwback" game that had different parts from different games but combined them together into something new, that could be a bit more interesting.
I like the sound of all these "robot museums", but sadly I don't think we could ever find room for one.