2014 Game

[fb39ca4]

Originally Posted by mman1506

And the new kinect will work in the dark. Hmmmm.

It would be neat to have a game with blacked out driver stations and you had to use a video stream.

I feel like that wouldn't fly for safety reasons. What if your camera broke and you were blindly driving around a 120lb machine at high speeds?

[BL0X3R]

How about a Hybrid Hockey-Pinball game? it would at least be fast-paced and original.

[Bryce2471]

I really think that dodge ball would be unique, and cool. Teams could be required to put a strip of reflective tape above their bumpers, there would be a line in the middle of the field that no one can cross until the last thirty seconds of the game. Human players can through balls in the end game as well. Also there is something like in empty sells from 2009. This wold push the great teams to make small but effective robots.

It would also be cool to have a game with two types of projectiles such as pucks and frisbees. Although i doubt. That they'll have another throwing/shooting game for a while.

[Bryce2471]

Also, there needs to be a game with ping pong balls soon.

[Iaquinto.Joe]

I'm putting my money on an arm game, descoring, and an easy endgame. Possibly an endgame that translates to the teleop mode. Meaning if you're good in teleop, you will be good at the endgame, like zone scoring or something.

[Boe]

Originally Posted by Bryce2471

Also, there needs to be a game with ping pong balls soon.

I feel like golf balls are more likely considering how fragile ping pong balls are, unless that was part of the challenge, but on the other hand they are much cheaper

[Bryce2471]

There was recently an off-season event here in the north west that involved up to 700 ping pong balls. There were many ping pong balls destroyed, but they were cheap enough that the hosting team replaced any broken ones between matches. The game involved shooting the ping pong balls at other robots. This would have to dangerous with golf balls.

[mlanglois]

A water game would be cool.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Originally Posted by Bryce2471

There was recently an off-season event here in the north west that involved up to 700 ping pong balls. There were many ping pong balls destroyed, but they were cheap enough that the hosting team replaced any broken ones between matches. The game involved shooting the ping pong balls at other robots. This would have to dangerous with golf balls.

@Bryce: Holla! Yeah ping pong balls were great for us because they were cheap and easily available, plus you NEVER had to worry about running out in a match. My one concern with using them in an FRC game would be just that so many of them break, and they're a nightmare to clean up (our carpet still has pieces ground in).

[Mr_I]

Sorry for joining the party so late. My thoughts:

Water Game: Ain't gonna happen. How many regional venues have pools?How many schools have pools that they'd be willing to devote to robotics? What kind of clean-up is required when various lubricants spill / leak, or when bits and pieces fall off?

Shooting Game: Agreed, we've thrown a lot of things in recent years, time for a break. (Unless, as some suggested, we tie this in with the Olympics, and have a biathalon game -- with REAL shooting! )

Stacking Game: My personal favorite, although it should be noted that Stack Attack in 2003 came so dreadfully close to BattleBots that the GDC is probably hesitant to repeat this. Stacking (or even "building"?) could be very cool, though.

Dodge Ball / Laser Tag: Potentially interesting, but A) how do you detect hits? Wouldn't this be a bit boring to watch?

Poker: VERY cool from the building / programming standpoint. But again, boring to watch?


Okay, let's combine ideas: Robots have to build a house of cards?

[jwallace15]

Originally Posted by fb39ca4

What if your camera broke and you were blindly driving around a 120lb machine at high speeds?

Simple: I would STOP!

Maybe have it so that if the camera fails the robot automatically shuts off.

I'm not sure how people would watch the game though if the lights are off...

[bbradf44]

Originally Posted by jwallace15

I'm not sure how people would watch the game though if the lights are off...

Instead of turning off lights they could black out the window to the field from the drive station so the drivers couldn't see the field

[JustbeingJFK]

I think if FIRST even decides to do another sports game, which I don't think they will, I think they will do a tennis game. I don't think they will do a shooting game because they have done two in a row, It will probably be a stacking game or something we have never seen before in a FIRST game ( music, glow in the dark, cooking, dancing, etc.) So I think 2014 will be the best game in FIRST ever!

[mman1506]

Originally Posted by fb39ca4

I feel like that wouldn't fly for safety reasons. What if your camera broke and you were blindly driving around a 120lb machine at high speeds?

You drive blind hit someone and get penalized for it. You then realize its a bad idea to drive blind. There's no rule that you can't close your eyes currently

[runneals]

There may or may not be a hint from Andy in his recent video! Water game?