[I]FIRST[/I] Trading Card Co.

[Joseph Lewis]

FIRST Community,

After Dean Kamen's inspiring speech at World Championships this year - "Make It Loud" - I spent quite a lot of time musing over how exactly to take this message to heart. With the help of a few other enthusiastic individuals, I think I have finally developed a way of promoting Coopertition, Gracious Professionalism, and Making in Loud. The FIRST Trading Card Co. (FTCC) is a design for a trading card game based on the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC).

The game is designed to play based on data collected throughout the FRC Season. In order to make this possible, many different teams from across the country will need to participate in the same scouting system. I am in development of a scouting app for Apple and Android Devices, where the data collected will be reviewed by peers and pushed to a server containing a Statistical Analysis Database (SAD). The SAD contains analysis beyond many other scouting systems, and is based on FIRST Team 701 the RoboVikes' World Championship Scouting Database known as the Chadabase.

Following is a link to the basic design of the game, including information on gameplay and possible cards.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

Having read all this, what are your ideas as to how the FTCC may work, and if it will work at all? What kind of impact do you believe that a shared SAD will do to the competition aspect? What are you thoughts on the concept, and design.

If you want to help contribute to the project, we could really use mentor information. Contribute a mentor from your team, with a picture (optional), and a brief description of what they do on the team. Not looking for Woodie Flowers nomination essays here . Also, if you have statistics on how well your robot performed last season, send those in as well. Send all information to :

first.tradingcardco@gmail.com

I greatly appreciate all contributions to the project. We are working in Alpha Testing right now, and once that stage is complete, those that contribute to the project will have a chance to work in beta testing.

Hope to get some great feedback.

Joseph Lewis
Head of Scouting and Vanden Robotics