Hockey Game Confirmed?

[samfruth]

@FIRSTweets just tweeted a #TBT picture to Lunacy 2009 :0

Low friction floors would be needed for the hockey game right??

It's either a hockey game or they are WAY too good a trolling us.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by samfruth

@FIRSTweets just tweeted a #TBT picture to Lunacy 2009 :0

Low friction floors would be needed for the hockey game right??

It's either a hockey game or they are WAY too good a trolling us.

Yes and yes!

[HumblePie]

I believe street hockey is played with tennis balls, yes? Sliding friction not such an issue, then. And, no nasty regolith. How does that jive with the packaging theories?

[IronicDeadBird]

Why would they force use to use hockey sticks? Wouldn't it be more (dare I say it?) in the spirit of FIRST to let the students solve the problem and not give them the solution...

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by RamZ

The Kings won the Stanley Cup last, so us LA teams have this hockey game in the bag!

I don't know us Chicagoans have those Blackhawks.

[nardavin]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Why would they force use to use hockey sticks? Wouldn't it be more (dare I say it?) in the spirit of FIRST to let the students solve the problem and not give them the solution...

Yes, I know. As I stated earlier, I was joking about it being hockey sticks. Assuming my theory is correct, it would make much more sense if it were hockey pucks.

[Abhishek R]

If you wanna force low-friction environments, I would rather see FIRST force everyone to use omni-wheels on carpet rather than regolith again. And from what I've heard, regolith was just a pain, so I doubt they would pull that out again.

My guess is field hockey with tennis balls, on carpet. I just wish for a mostly open carpet field...I like fast robots.

[nardavin]

Originally Posted by samfruth

@FIRSTweets just tweeted a #TBT picture to Lunacy 2009 :0



Low friction floors would be needed for the hockey game right??



It's either a hockey game or they are WAY too good a trolling us.

I just added that to the main post. That's actually a really good point.

[SenorZ]

No no no... Though it could be.

Blog post about ANYthing being reused.

24 days to kickoff for the 24th FRC season (am I right there).

I expect a recycle to some extent, but regolith would be cruel.

Though there was that "full swing" reference on the KOP blog post 'hint'

[GDB]

Just realizing that having this proof, and the fact they tweeted out about Lunacy as well the day after, just put so many hints towards a water game.

[Anthony Galea]

Well this was less than 100 ft away from our build space (same building we practice in which is across the street from our school) so we have the advantage:

https://twitter.com/FlaPanthers/stat...10182560927744

(Detroit Red Wings practice there sometimes too)

[GDB]

Originally Posted by 3175student17

Well this was less than 100 ft away from our build space (same building we practice in which is across the street from our school) so we have the advantage:

https://twitter.com/FlaPanthers/stat...10182560927744

(Detroit Red Wings practice there sometimes too)

Well if that is true, you lucky duck!

And if it is a hockey game, so many people are going to flip out about it, from all I hear, Lunacy was not the best game FIRST had in FRC.

[Tom Line]

I've long wanted a hockey game. They have pucks made for carpet that have internal fans and act as hover-craft, though I'm not sure if they'd be durable enough for our use.

I think you have to make two assumptions about that package.

1. The length is necessary, which means it's not flexible.
2. It's not a common item like a hockey puck, stick, or PVC. If it were, they'd have us buy it ourselves. Even things like the tetras can be made out of PVC. This is something a little more exotic.

https://www.google.com/shopping/prod...ed=0CFMQpiswAQ

[AWoL]

Originally Posted by nardavin

-In the source code for the site, the word "Choice" in the title "FIRST Choice" is split into "Ch", "o", and "ice". The word "ice" being alone is the first real hint towards it being a hockey game.

view-source:http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...5-kit-of-parts

Line 269 for the note-so-gifted at parsing HTML source.

[Oblarg]

I do not think there will be regolith. None of the "game hints" of this sort have ever panned out, and I think FIRST knows that a return of regolith would make a whole lot of people very, very upset.