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Re: Curtain Game

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Originally Posted by 595294001 View Post
Here's my game idea:

The field is divided in half down the center (between driver stations) by a large black curtain (permanently attached to the floor), the curtain has opening on each of the far sides (by the human players)with ramps leading into the gaps, and a opening 1/2 or 2/3 robot starting height beside each. (the openings in the curtain are at the edges, so that it is hard for driers to see through them).

The robots would collect scoring objects on their own side (the side of the curtain their drivers where on), and score on the other. The drivers would be challenged to score, because they could only tell where their robot was, based on communication from teammates, debugging lights, and potentially (I don't know if FIRST would be willing to do this) laptops attached to the drive system, allowing the robots to send back video .

The scoring object could be anything, my suggestion would be posts that you have to stick into holes, or some other manipulation intensive scoring challenge.

It would increase defense (because you have the advantage of sight when defending, making it easier and more worthwhile). Allow programing innovations (scoring using semi-autonomous routines, because its hard ot control scoring manually without *much* vision.). Increase the importance of humans through teamwork (Human players, could communicate with their drive teams), while letting the robots score. And the challenge would mix up strategies and ideas, challenge drive teams, and require innovative design and building, while allowing openings for rookies, to work in easier, but just as vital positions, like defense.

Stretching FIRST to the limit and creating a new fun FRC game.
i think this is a fantastic idea. it would prove a great challenge, and if FIRSt allowed the feedback of video cameras, the system would prove a greater challenge because the drivers would have to be able to swtich their perspective of vision every time the crossed to the other side of the field form which they are already on. but posts might not be the best choice unless you could make sure that they did not harm the robots.
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