Our team has two factions. One of them stay at our school/robotics location and watches the web cast while filling up on breakfast danishes and coffee, and the other attends the local Kick off and Picks up the parts from VCU. The group that goes to the kick off usually arrives an hour or two earlier to get good parking and to speculate.
After watching the Webcast, and recieving our parts we discuss our ideas while checking out the field elements that the VCU team concocts. Then we discuss some more on our ride back home while the other group at the home base prints out 4 or 5 game manuals for the team to look over. When we get back home the team discusses the game as a whole and includes discussion of what major things we may need too work on (Camera, IR sensor, special mechanisms) and then split up in to multiple groups with at least one veteran and one mentor.
The groups then spend about 45 mins looking over the rules and coming up with crayon sketches and designs of what we want and how we want to accomplish our goals. Afterwards we reconvene and present our ideas.. then, We take votes on simple things such as Maneuverability or Pusher and narrow down concepts to three work-able designs..
finaly,... we get some lunch, chow-down, and talk about how sweeeeeet the game is!
after that it gets a little shady...
