anyone have any ideas about next years game?

[NyCityKId]

so yeah... i know its a bit early but its never to early to start brain-storming right?

[Fireworks 234]

Originally Posted by NyCityKId

so yeah... i know its a bit early but its never to early to start brain-storming right?

You said it all right there The game isn't even finished yet


Edit: Yay 200th post!

[ADZDEBLICK]

water game...

[kazzykaty]

Originally Posted by ADZDEBLICK

water game...

Everyone always thinks a water game... and it never is.

[Nick Lawrence]

In 2009, I simply said it had something to do with the moon, as NASA is one of FIRST's biggest sponsors, and being it their anniversary for landing on the moon that year, it kinda made sense. I said the entire game will be moon and space themed, I was right.

In 2010, I said the game would be a heavily modified version of soccer. World cup being that year, and hints on Bills Blog gave that one away pretty early. I was right again.

Maybe I'll go 3 for 3 this year.

PREDICTION:

The 2011 FRC game will be a territorial based game, kind of like capture the flag. The field will be divided in half width-wise by a set of stairs, and a platform. The main game piece will be oversized tennis balls, a flashback to the 1992 FRC game. This is the 20th season of FRC, after all. The object of the game will to be have the most oversized tennis balls on your side of the field. Balls will start either on the field, or dumped on the field like the playground balls were in 2004. For balls to count, they will have to touch the ground. It's possible that FIRST will make a rule stating you can only hold x amount of tennis balls at a time, but that would be unlikely.

So, if I'm right, you need to think about the 1992 game, the 2004 game and the 2006 game.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by kazzykaty

Everyone always thinks a water game... and it never is.

Everybody always makes the joke that it will be a water game...though most of us do know why it won't happen.

[dragonman]

Originally Posted by ADZDEBLICK

water game...

I want a water game so bad and this year at kick off I was getting excited when the kept bring tubes out

[PAR_WIG1350]

We've finally done it, we've started talking about the next game before even a single official match has been played.

One question, why are we doing this in the thread that was meant for discussing the 2011 game? Shouldn't we start a new one for the 2012 game, or better yet, sleep on it for a MONTH or so and then start a new thread. I foresee people getting the 2 different discussions (2011 and 2012) confused, thus, I believe it is best to separate them.

[maria3johnsons]

Originally Posted by dragonman

I want a water game so bad and this year at kick off I was getting excited when the kept bring tubes out

Totally agreed with you... Water games are very rarely developed, would love to play some new water based PC games!!!

[Dancin103]

Really already?!? lol

[Epic]

We all know it is going to be BattleBots.

[bobosalad]

Originally Posted by Epic

We all know it is going to be BattleBots.

i think they should create a battle bot challenge one year to get it out of everyones systems!!

[theprgramerdude]

I'd like to see a challenge where it's more like a race, but without actually limiting speed like in Overdrive (there were penalties for excessive speed ). It would just be a mad dash around the track, maybe with some bumps or obstacles, at top speed, so that the team that puts effort into creating the most efficient, frictionless design would win. Of course, extra bumpers on the edges would be needed for safety.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by theprgramerdude

... but without actually limiting speed like in Overdrive (there were penalties for excessive speed ...

There were? That's news to this referee.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

There were? That's news to this referee.

And to this memorizer-of-rulebooks. I think that the penalties in question were the ones for excessive ramming rather than speed.