[pufame]

This is beginning to get a little frustrating, I realize it's just a pilot but the details are just WAY to vague. A few questions I had that others may have answers to or are wondering themselves...

1) On the site is says that March 1-3 are the competitions. It then links you to FIRST's website and a list of all FRC competitions. Does this mean that we are expected to model and/or show and/or play our game at all of our competitions?

2) When it says design a game for the robot to play, does this mean we are ACTUALLY making an entirely new playing field and set of rules? I mean I could see making this with pen and paper but to actually have to build the field, especially during build, seems a bit cumbersome.

3) When it says "install your fuel cell system into a FIRST competition robot," does this mean that we are intalling the rigs into our FRC robot or are we building seperate robots to play the games we designed or are we just makeing something that can move and power itself with the Hydrogen.

4) In the most recent e-mail, it says that ALL participating teams are invited to Atlanta for Nationals. Does this mean that we will
a) Compete in the FRC competition w/ the fuel cell rig in the robot
b) Compete in the FRC competition and show our fuel cells rig
c) Not Compete in the FRC competition and play our designed games in a seperate area
d) Compete in both FRC and a seperate competition
e) Some other odd combination of the above

5) How are we supposed to use our fuel cells rigs at any FIRST event, were not allowed to have flamable gas like Hydrogen at the event. Will there be a seperate area for Fuel Cell robots? Will we charge the batteries for our FRC robots outside or in a seperate area? Is there some other system?

6) Since all of these tasks say "Design" or insert into "design", does that mean that everything we do short of makeing a Fuel Cell System that can output power just be done with pen and paper? Will there even be a new robot or possibility of running our FRC robot off of Hydrogen, or will these just be hypothetical?

If anyone has any answers plese post it... I'm trying to get the answers through e-mail myself but I think I'm just spinning my wheels alot of the time.