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Originally Posted by EricH
Ice game.
Hence the HDPE in my last post--that's commonly used as fake ice.
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Ice Game! Yes... combine that with the hockey pucks in the FTC game this year and the Canadian influence on FIRST is really starting to show!
Yeah, yeah... I know other countries play hockey... and thank goodness for that or international hockey matches would be rather boring.
Actually having some part of the playing surface be low-friction (perhaps hdpe) would be a most interesting challenge and would get away from the bigger torquier (is that even a word?) drive systems and pushing matches that defined success in a few of our past games.
The only catch would be coming up with a surface that teams could afford to practice on. A 4x8 sheet of HDPE could be fairly expensive. Simply using smooth concrete might serve the same purpose... but that would present a challenge in gymnasiums...
In any case, bring on the ice!
Jason