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Re: Next Year's Game?

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Originally Posted by TJ Cawley View Post
i think a challenge would be having to "think outside the box" while fitting inside one and floating in it too. the idea of this year's game made people think of a water-invloved game. so why not give them one next year? its an idea, not unlike robots on the moon's surface, never tried on a FIRST playing field. it would introduce a greater difference in ideas and designs that would better differenciate one team's robot from another. there are a lot of ways to make a person float. so how hard would it be to make a 120lb robot float?
I guess you've never read the hundred and one discussions on why it can't be done in a FIRST competition. Possible? Yes. Practical? Not on your life.

Note that there is an underwater robotics competition. I don't remember the website offhand, so some of the others who do will have to help me out.
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