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Misdirected E-mail Unveils 2001 Game 3 Days Early...

Posted by Joe Johnson at 1/2/2001 10:34 PM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.



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



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