Hockey Game Confirmed?

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by jagoldman

Dare I say Regolith ice?

No

[mrnoble]

Just so we're on the same page: every time someone here says "regolith" referring to the actual surface Lunacy was played on, I get a little crazy. Regolith is the loose surface of dirt or dust over bedrock; in this case, the dust on the surface of the moon. What we played on was the stuff that is used to line cheap showers, and it was called "regolith" so that we would associate it with low gravity on the surface of the moon, in keeping with the theme. That stuff will never be used again in FRC, as it disintegrated and lost the desired low CoF characteristic, and made a mess.

Please don't dog on me, veterans. I know that you know already, but some people (especially students) don't know and might need to get caught up on the terminology.

[evanfeldman100]

Just in case anyone's wondering, I highly doubt the big (3*3*60) box is pucks. Rubber is far too heavy and foam is too light (when calculated using - http://www.ebay.com/itm/POOF-Slinky-...-/331413584959 as the approximate foam weight, the box would only weigh around two pounds).

Perhaps it is a mix of rubber, foam and street hockey pucks and tennis balls.

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Just so we're on the same page: every time someone here says "regolith" referring to the actual surface Lunacy was played on, I get a little crazy. Regolith is the loose surface of dirt or dust over bedrock; in this case, the dust on the surface of the moon. What we played on was the stuff that is used to line cheap showers, and it was called "regolith" so that we would associate it with low gravity on the surface of the moon, in keeping with the theme. That stuff will never be used again in FRC, as it disintegrated and lost the desired low CoF characteristic, and made a mess.

Please don't dog on me, veterans. I know that you know already, but some people (especially students) don't know and might need to get caught up on the terminology.

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! The actual material is called FRP (Fiber-Reinforced Plastic) Board. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded...9600/100389836 This is a huge pet-peeve of mine as well!
FIRST made the mistake of saying "a slick polymer material called regolith" in the game animation, and it has stuck ever since.

[Jarren Harkema]

Originally Posted by Derpancakes

I dunno how many times this will need to be brought up, but Frank acknowledged that the 60" box will definitely make it hard to transport. If the box contained anything like balls or tiny pieces, they would have put it in a more square box. It's obviously something rigid that requires a 5 foot long box.

I think a lot of us have overlooked this... There are a lot more efficient ways to pack a bunch of hockey pucks or balls. I have to conclude that with both this, as well as the source code debunking, the odds of the game actually being something like hockey are pretty low.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by Jarren Harkema

I think a lot of us have overlooked this... There are a lot more efficient ways to pack a bunch of hockey pucks or balls. I have to conclude that with both this, as well as the source code debunking, the odds of the game actually being something like hockey are pretty low.

It is at this point that I must get out my soapbox, stand on it and SHOUT "Nattering Nabobs of Negativity!"

It must be a Hockey game!!

Stepping off the soapbox now.

[mrnoble]

I give a "capture the flag" type variant (with plenty of leeway for adaptation to robots) pretty good odds this year; maybe 13/4. My second choice would be football, at maybe 15/1. Hockey is way down the list, less likely than a redux of AA or some other game from the past. "The Box" is either bumper fabric, Versa Frame samples, or the game piece. No hockey sticks, and certainly not pucks or some other nonsense. Sorry people.

[zinthorne]

So I got to thinking a few days ago about the box size, and i immediately thought back to the flags on the robots back in 2008. I also thought of the "Trident" things in soccer to inbound the balls. And lastly of the mini bots climbing the poles in 2011. My idea is that either we are going to have the flags again or something similar, and FIRST just wants to drive us crazy with the long box. Or we have an inbound tool, possibly Human Player defense in front of some type of goal??? Or we have Some type of device (pole) we must run a mini bot up, or it could be a game of stacking objects, and we must use said object (The object in the box) to do it. My other idea is you must use a pole or something to touch beacons or something similar in the air above the playing field.

I also looked up the FTC game this year. In it there are long tubes the robots must fill with balls. Could this years game have something similar, and they are including a tube with the kop?
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/game

On the Hockey thing, why include a hockey stick in the kop when we can go to most sports stores and buy one?

[GeeTwo]

I never actually looked for a hockey stick in a sporting goods store in southern Louisiana, but I don't ever recall having seen one in my browses looking for something I can adapt to a totally different purpose, either.

[mrnoble]

Aargh!

[SoulianPride]

I'm having doubts about it being a hockey game simply because that package could be anything - it doesn't have to be hockey specific.

[TheCrayButton]

Hahaha this tho...


Credit: 3175student17
PhotoCredit: Frcnation.com

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by TheCrayButton

Hahaha this tho...


Credit: 3175student17
PhotoCredit: Frcnation.com

I see you have been reading my posts again!

[joeweber]

This post is too funny, This off season we have built a hockey playing robot. It would drop the puck and than we attached a hockey stick to it. We did a demonstration at a local hockey game. We dropped the puck for opening ceremonies and than at intermission we drove it on the ice and shot a puck. I hope it is a hockey game as we are ahead of the design curve.

[Koko Ed]

I came up with a hockey game concept years ago back when Dave Lavery was encouraging us to come up with game designs.
I miss those days.