2014 Game

[Jay Burnett]

Originally Posted by Orion.DeYoe

So, the popular suggestion seems to be hockey. I really like this idea. It would be unlike anything FIRST has implemented before. Hopefully it would involve actually hitting a puck around the field (like real hockey), as opposed to picking them up and depositing them in a goal. I wouldn't have a problem with them bringing back some sort of very slick surface as long as the only purpose it serves is to allow the pucks to slide and not to impede robot movement. Look at professional hockey, the players have no problem moving around the field. In fact they move around a lot faster on ice than most people do off the ice. FIRST needs to allow us to solve the problem of maneuverability on the field with different types of wheels and materials making contact with the floor (not make us use those dumb hard plastic wheels). Oh, and don’t even think about making me put skates or skis on my robot.

I think hockey would be a fun game to design for,(receiving the puck and shooting it out again) and it would also be very fun to watch. Because i know the unspeakable year 2009 has scarred many of you for life with the regolith feilds, hkey could be played without changing the floor material by adding rollers onto the bottom of the pucks. If the game is played like real hokey, there would be lots of contact and fighting for control of the puck, so defending the opposing alliance's robot away from the puck would be a valuable skill. It's also something that the BLTs and rookies could focus on and still be a valuable alliance partner. That said, the veterans and really good rookies (hopefully us this season) would focus on puck handling and scoring.

To keep play going after a score, one robot on the alliance that just got scored on would load a puck from the human player and then play would resume. The rules would be set so that members of the scoring alliance must be in their zone within 5 seconds of a goal happening, and can return to the other side after the puck is brought into the field of play.

Autonomous mode could be each robot shooting a preloaded puck into their goal. Robots would be lined up across from each other like this ~_~_~_. The end game is a little difficult, i can't come up with anything right now..... maybee the end game would be dropped because scoring would take such a long time with any passable defence.

That's my opinion, I hope the guys on the GDC read cd and pick this one up