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Simulated Season

I'm thinking about re-running an old season over the summer as a design exercise for new recruits. What season would you guys recommend, and where can I find the rules for that game?
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Re: Simulated Season

If you're trying to train new recruits, try Breakaway. It's easy to know how to play robot soccer. This'll teach controls. and will help with rules. If you want them to learn about penalties, try doing this year's game!
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Re: Simulated Season

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If you're trying to train new recruits, try Breakaway. It's easy to know how to play robot soccer. This'll teach controls. and will help with rules. If you want them to learn about penalties, try doing this year's game!
I'm more interested in a season that is unfamiliar to everyone on the team, so pre-2008. The ultimate goal is to have a group of students that's already gone through a design challenge together without our current leadership, so that in the absence of this years seniors, they will be able to be competitive.
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Re: Simulated Season

We talked about doing this at one point in time. It's a good idea, if you have the money and the supplies to do it. You'll need a full field to actually run matches on if you plan on having everyone build robots, too. It's no fun if you don't get to see how your robot does!

Make sure you have plenty of support from mentors or alum if you want to try it. That kind of knowledge will be helpful.

Here are the rules for all games, dating back to 2002.
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We talked about doing this at one point in time. It's a good idea, if you have the money and the supplies to do it. You'll need a full field to actually run matches on if you plan on having everyone build robots, too. It's no fun if you don't get to see how your robot does!

Make sure you have plenty of support from mentors or alum if you want to try it. That kind of knowledge will be helpful.

Here are the rules for all games, dating back to 2002.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...t.aspx?id=4094
We need to check with our sponsor to see if we can build robots, but we have half a field built in our workshop at school we could run on.

I was picturing the entire team working to build one FRC robot, but it sounds like looking at multiple, smaller robots might be a better idea.
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Re: Simulated Season

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If you're trying to train new recruits, try Breakaway. It's easy to know how to play robot soccer. This'll teach controls. and will help with rules. If you want them to learn about penalties, try doing this year's game!
I second that, compared to many games over the years breakaway was a fairly simple concept to grasp, plus the fact it was recent helps a lot.

I might recommend the rule of not using any mechanisms that you guys used on your robot (that way people do something new)
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We need to check with our sponsor to see if we can build robots, but we have half a field built in our workshop at school we could run on.

I was picturing the entire team working to build one FRC robot, but it sounds like looking at multiple, smaller robots might be a better idea.
Maize craze? although were gunna need to buy some corn kernels... Also for small robots we could use a FTC or VEX game.
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Vex might be a nice way to go also, its even easier and can easily be done in somebody's basement.
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If you still have your FTC KOP from this year's game, you can try to make some kind of robot. Or you can get another FTC/VEX kit. I heard that FRC teams get a discount on parts.
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Re: Simulated Season

1999 would be a good one. There is a dominant strategy in that one.
2000 and 2004 are also good choices for non-dominant strategies.

IIRC, FIRST is working on putting FRC history on their site. The Technokats History Project should also have that information.
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Hmmm. 2005 might be your best bet for a recent game with rules and a simple strategy of picking up and object an scoring it.
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I was picturing the entire team working to build one FRC robot, but it sounds like looking at multiple, smaller robots might be a better idea.
I would suggest FLL/VEX. FLL would provide allow your students to work though the design process and work with sensors and programming (it's fully autonomous). VEX it a little more expensive than FLL, but the game would be more exciting (IMO).
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Indeed! Also a pretty easy game to design in vex.
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Indeed! Also a pretty easy game to design in vex.
Yeah I use it all the time in FLL.
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2000 was the best game ever, IMHO.
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