2016 Football Game

[RedWing21]

With a lot of people missing the competition that everyone had in rebound rumble, I would be surprised if they didn't create a game that was orientated around creating a team versus team game.
There is no better way to have competition than to have it be sports related and with the NFL being a huge cooperation with lots of ways to influence the game through TV ads and support through Play 60...I would say Football is an amazing game for the upcoming 2016 season.

What do you guys think of a 2016 football game?

[MikLast]

not interconnected enough. needs more spook.


Seriously though, i dont think football would happen. too easy to figure out and i just dont see how that would work well.

[Travis Hoffman]

Hockey means only one thing....THE RETURN OF REGOLITH!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Soccer has already been done so I don't see why it would be done again.

[asid61]

Remember that thread a while back about breaking the world record for how fast a hockey puck could be shot with a robot?
Safety glasses aren't going to stop a puck moving at 120mph.
Same with baseball and softball.
Soccer already happened (2010).

So my vote is for football. I'm surprised we haven't seen that yet honestly.

[dmorewood]

Originally Posted by asid61

Remember that thread a while back about breaking the world record for how fast a hockey puck could be shot with a robot?
Safety glasses aren't going to stop a puck moving at 120mph.
Same with baseball and softball.

Sooooooo it's called a foam hockey puck. I use them all the time for off ice training and it would make the game far more difficult to design for because they don't react like a normal puck.

[kyle_hamblett]

Originally Posted by MikLast

not interconnected enough. needs more spook.


Seriously though, i dont think football would happen. too easy to figure out and i just dont see how that would work well.

Footballs are an entirely new shape, and while they might be easy to figure out, it could allow for them to put in another harder element. Example: 2013. Shooting Frisbees is pretty easy, but climbing 10ft into the air, not so much.

[ImMoMo]

Originally Posted by kyle_hamblett

Footballs are an entirely new shape, and while they might be easy to figure out, it could allow for them to put in another harder element. Example: 2013. Shooting Frisbees is pretty easy, but climbing 10ft into the air, not so much.

I agree, with footballs being the irregular shape that they are, it might pose a new challenge, although I'm sure FIRST will think of some other game elements to further complex the field and strategy!

[The_ShamWOW88]

I see footballs as a game-piece in the near future but not necessarily mimicking the sport exactly. Something like 2006 with different goal set-ups and using same material footballs and not spherical balls.

[Richard Wallace]

Poof Footballs would make excellent gamepieces, IF human players are NOT permitted to touch them.

[SenorZ]

Football! ...wait... american football?

J/k. Just think, we had a year without bumpers. Now we'll have bumpers AND helmets!!!

[GeeTwo]

I'm trying to figure out what soccer (international football) means in terms of robots. In abstract, soccer is essentially the same as hockey or polo except that you don't use an implement or even your hands to manipulate the game piece. Would soccer mean that robots could not use any manipulators except drive wheels and the chassis? Sorry, but I'm not feelin' it.

American football - the down structure would be utterly unusable unless we had much longer matches. We would have to cut the number of matches down by a factor of ten - sort of like the difference between MLB/NBA and the NFL. And if you get rid of the down structure and other stuff that only makes sense because of it, you're pretty close to rugby - see next paragraph.

Hockey, that's just like Aerial Assist except that you can't actually "posess" the ball. AA was more like rugby than anything else - I even remember the announcer referring to a scrum on the red end of the field.

Baseball/softball - forget it. There were only a few dozen robots that caught the high lob in Aerial Assist - who (except the Cheezy Poofs) could make contact, much less a base hit?

Hockey's the only one that makes any sense, but I"m going to stick with my "many balls" theory and abstain.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

I'm trying to figure out what soccer (international football) means in terms of robots. In abstract, soccer is essentially the same as hockey or polo except that you don't use an implement or even your hands to manipulate the game piece. Would soccer mean that robots could not use any manipulators except drive wheels and the chassis? Sorry, but I'm not feelin' it.

See Breakaway, 2010's FRC game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEHAj3EmpMw

Balls were not allowed to enter a robot's frame by more than 3". Robots were not allowed to lift balls off the ground. Robots were now allowed to use mechanisms in motion (relative to the frame) to manipulate balls off the ground. Robots were not allowed to extend beyond their frame perimeter for more than a few seconds. Mechanisms were still used to manipulate balls, but they had to meet these requirements.

[carpedav000]

Would hockey involve the return of the Lunacy field?

[galewind]

being that superbowl 50 is next year, I wouldn't be surprised.

Come on now, don't tell me I'm the only one that predicted that this year's game would be football, named "FIRST Down"!