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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo View Post
Instead of a large yellow ball, what IF it was a tennis ball that went into the smokestack?

Maybe add a train carload of tennis balls to go with the 'logs'.

But I feel there's something missing. Two trains like that would be difficult to maneuver past, and I'd like to see a structure by which robots receive playing pieces somehow.
Taking this idea and rolling with it:

I bet that if there were three carts for each alliance, and there were 9 possible obtainable crates (with two of each alliance's cart starts with a crate) and you have robots try and get the crates on...THEN you could have soccer balls or something similar that can be put into the carts. The more crates on your cart, the more soccer balls you can hold, the more points you can gain.

Tonight I'll come up with some more ideas on receiving game pieces and opening the space for robots, yet after last year I don't think having massive game elements on the floor to be that much of an issue.

Maybe after this season of FIRST, I should make a "let's design a FIRST game" game thread, having everyone input and vote on ideas, get Dave Lavery to tell us how well we did. haha.
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