[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[valeriemoore]

1.(New) Has anyone considered going to the places in real life? I know that we have found signs at two of the points that seem relevant, but only a church at the third. There might be something else there that is hard or can't be found with google maps.

2.(Reflection) I think that baseball seems very likely. Between the graph that produces the sphere when the base points are put in, the fact that we are due for a ball game, and the puns on baseball.

3.(New info on old theory) I agree with whoever mentioned the difficulty with an abstract game. As someone who did field reset at midwest last year (I have never counted to 15 so many times before in my life), match turnover is so much easier when the scoring only counts once(i.e. No multipliers) . The sensors were what put the score up on the screen, but the score that actually determined the match was what we counted out. Usually we would count the Frisbees as they came in and kept a running count, but if we lost count, or there were 50+ we would do a manual recount which could take more than a minute. For there to be multipliers would make everything just so much more difficult. The game overall will probably be easy to follow along, the game pieces that are scored in the higher goals count more etc. This also makes sense with the way FIRST has been building their games in previous years. There is an easy, low point, way to score, a middle, and a difficult. The game will probably have multiple ways of scoring, some easy others difficult, and the points will probably not have multiplies.