FRC Blogged - FIRST Choice: Progress

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by MrBasse

Hat trick = Hockey game.

Three's keep coming back into play in every message though...

Guess I will go there, Hockey is played on Ice and ice is made of water.

Water game.

First and last time I ever go there, I promise.

[MrTechCenter]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

Guess I will go there, Hockey is played on Ice and ice is made of water.

Water game.

First and last time I ever go there, I promise.

Return of regolith?

[buildmaster5000]

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter

Return of regolith?

No. Please no. If there was something worse than the MiniBots, that was it.

[rwkling1]

Floor hockey maybe? So it's not a slippery surface, but still hockey

[Steven Donow]

Now let's talk about what the blog was actually trying to say.


I assume FIRST Choice will open the second or the third of January. It also looks like we'll see a total restructuring/reformatting of how FIRST Choice is done, which is kinda disappointing, but FIRST and AM know it needs to be done.

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by DevenStonow

Now let's talk about what the blog was actually trying to say.


I assume FIRST Choice will open the second or the third of January. It also looks like we'll see a total restructuring/reformatting of how FIRST Choice is done, which is kinda disappointing, but FIRST and AM know it needs to be done.

I don't expect a change in the visible process of FIRST Choice. I expect they're working on correcting the underlying issues with the infrastructure.

/cue obligatory ACA website reference.

[MooreteP]

I call game hint.

Hockey is the emulation this season.
A goalie to block scoring, 2 v. 2 offense and defense.
Pucks (see 1999)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Trouble_(FIRST)

Although the pucks will be much smaller. They may be Roomba's!

Penalty boxes (too difficult) and power plays would be interesting.

Regolith may or may not happen. It wasn't such a bad thing and fit the theme of lower friction on the Moon. I hope not, but we have a bunch of leftover wheels from that game.

[Jon Stratis]

I like the idea of power plays... Instead of an auto period at the start, each robot could randomly be dropped into auto, with limited control ala Overdrive. 2:15 matches, each robot gets dropped in for a different 15 second auto period, with 5 seconds between each auto period and the last 5 seconds for end game.

I hope I'm not giving the GDC diabolical game ideas now!

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

I like the idea of power plays... Instead of an auto period at the start, each robot could randomly be dropped into auto, with limited control ala Overdrive. 2:15 matches, each robot gets dropped in for a different 15 second auto period, with 5 seconds between each auto period and the last 5 seconds for end game.

I hope I'm not giving the GDC diabolical game ideas now!

I think something of a similar nature would be very interesting to game strategy, where each robot on the alliance takes turns going through a 40 second 'power play' during teleop where their scoring is boosted a la autonomous mode the past two years. It would require fluid and dynamic match strategies to work with the teams focusing on letting the power play robot score, or focusing their defense on a specific robot on the opposing alliance.

[FrankJ]

Hat trick, three strikes. They are clearly saying there will be 3 robot on each alliance!!!

[BrendanB]

Back to the topic of this thread....

Thank you FIRST for keeping us in the loop and I am glad to hear the progress being made to produce a better system for everyone!

Who designed the FIRST Choice site? Was it the same outfit that designed Healthcare.gov?

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Dr.Bot

Who designed the FIRST Choice site? Was it the same outfit that designed Healthcare.gov?

Ouch?

[nicholsjj]

One thing that I wish FIRST Choice would do is to open the 3D printing lottery now so that those teams will not be waiting to get their printers after kickoff. I don't think it's fair that our team has one now and we are able to design and print parts currently to learn how to use the printer when there an award that is now available for it. I would suggest that FIRST and AndyMark allow the teams that wanted to participate in the lottery to have their main lead mentor send an email with a priority list of their printer choice to the FIRST Choice email. This way would also provide FIRST Choice with less traffic when they fully open up *hopefully on the 28 as well as give those teams a chance to "mess around" with the new technology.

I would also like to thank the hard work and straight forwardness that the FIRST KOP staff as well as the AndyMark staff has been with the FIRST Community involving FIRST Choice. I hope that you all know that the service that you are providing is VERY helpful for many teams. Again Thanks.