How much of a field?

[StephLee]

How much of a practice field is your team planning on setting up this year?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by StephLee

How much of a practice field is your team planning on setting up this year?

The TechnoKats are fortunate to have a permanent full-sized carpeted practice field at one end of the shop. As the host of the local kickoff, we also have a complete (wooden) rack. There's only one alliance wall, though; having taken down last year's goals, the other end is open at the moment.

[Madison]

Some of the teams in the Greater Seattle area have rented a warehouse and will have a full-sized practice field available for most of the build season.

Individually, our team is mocking up one small section of "The Rack," as we don't have space to store anything as large as this field element.

[D.Stephenson]

We built a secton of the rack and will using half of our drafting room for testing,

[hallk]

We sent up the full course every year and then host a "mini-regional" which is held the last weekend before ship.

[Zoheb N]

We have a full rack and what seems to be between a 1/2 to full field more towards the full field length.

[Billfred]

We'll just be mocking up one section of the rack.

[Pavan Dave]

We already have a rack, but we have enough carpet for most of the field so we might make a full field.

Pavan.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

We only ever build just the scoring feature of the game, One goal for the tetras, A hole attached to the wall last year, and we are going to build just one vertical row of spiderlegs. If we could build a whole field we would, but i think its kind of to much trouble

[Taylor]

We're almost done with our rack. We're going to play the game before we design our robots - hopefully this will help us with unforseen gameplay strategies.
In order to recreate the robot experience, we'll have the human "bots" perform the tasks with their eyes closed, only acting out the orders given by the "drivers" 25 feet away.

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by boiler

We're almost done with our rack. We're going to play the game before we design our robots - hopefully this will help us with unforseen gameplay strategies.
In order to recreate the robot experience, we'll have the human "bots" perform the tasks with their eyes closed, only acting out the orders given by the "drivers" 25 feet away.

We're going to do something similar after we get our rack built which should (hopefully) be saturday.