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Posted by nick237 at 1/3/2001 10:37 AM EST


Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.


In Reply to: Misdirected E-mail Unveils 2001 Game 3 Days Early...
Posted by Joe Johnson on 1/2/2001 10:34 PM EST:



Are we missing some thing here. The message was a personal comunication between Dean and another, the Email was confidential and should have remained that way. To have read it was unfortunate but to have posted it is possibly an illegal act?
If this had come to me I would have contacted Dean and told him of its misdirection and that I would for the benifit of FIRST keep it confidential for the three days to my self.
Posting it at the time may have seemed like the noble thing to do but we are assuming that every team every where is privy to the Delphi forum and they will see this at the same time as we have.
Sorry joe but it was some thing you should have kept to your self, 'if your wrong' and thats a possibility then you will have done your self, the Delphi forum and FIRST a diservice, and set trust back in a toilet.
Just my 2 cents.
nick237



: Hi all,

: This message was too hot not to post on this Forum.

: I am not sure how it happened, but somehow a message
: from Dean to a potential supporter of FIRST got BCC'ed
: to my mailbox by mistake! Once the genie was out of
: the bottle, I just didn't feel right keeping it to my
: own group of FIRSTers.

: Read it and weep...

: Joe J.

: Dear Jeff,

: Thank you for your commitment to sponsor a FIRST
: regional in Seattle in 2002. You will not be
: disappointed in the return on your investment.

: I am extremely excited to hear that you will be
: attending the Nationals as a judge in April. Again, I
: believe you will find it a worthy investment of your time.

: If I must say so, the game we have cooked up for the
: FIRST teams this season is the best we have ever
: designed. There is a lot to explain, but basically,
: the game is played 2 on 2 on a field about the size of
: a tennis court. There are 7 HUGE balls on the court,
: each about 3 feet in diameter weighing approximately 5
: pounds. Of the 7 balls, 3 are blue, 3 are red and the
: last one is white. In addition to the 4 robots on the
: field (2 playing red, 2 playing blue) and the 7 balls
: there is a sort of playground structure at where the
: net would be on a tennis court. The structure looks
: similar to a multi level fence with ramps and
: underpasses that provide various levels of difficulty
: in either getting over it or under it depending on
: where one tries to cross to the other side.

: The primary feature of the structure however mounted to
: it's center, right in middle of the field at about eye
: level (assuming I am seated in my I-BOT in 2 wheel
: mode) is large ball corral that can rotate like a Lazy
: Susan.

: The object of the game is 3 fold: Get your balls in the
: corral, Get your robot off the ground by hanging from
: special bars mounted radial from the ball corral, Have
: the white ball in the corral with its center on your
: side of the field.

: We are still working out the exact details concerning
: what point values are associate with each of these
: feats, but the basic idea will be the same as always;
: to make teams unsure of exactly which design path they
: need to follow without adding too much confusion to the
: untrained fan in the stands.

: The game may seem a bit difficult to explain with
: words, but rest assured, it is a very simple, yet
: exciting game to watch.

: I will have more to say when I see you next week. I
: will have pictures of the field with me at that time.

: Dean