2016 Game Prediction - Football

[pmangels17]

It often snows here in South Bend on gameday. Maybe we will have some sort of snowfall mechanic where slowly the field lines start to disappear and then nobody knows where any of the zones are?

[SousVide]

Water Polo - water game confirmed.

[Siri]

Originally Posted by smart1

What a coincidence that this thread was started. I have started designing a football mini game for a potential fall project. I don't want to giveaway the details as alot of kids on our team read chiefdelphi. My thinking is First has to do it eventually, it's the only thing they haven't done. Rugby would be cool too.

In all seriousness, someone on the GDC (pretty sure it's Aiden) has said that he brings a nerf football into a brainstorming session every year. Eventually they'll cave (so he says).

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by Siri

In all seriousness, someone on the GDC (pretty sure it's Aiden) has said that he brings a nerf football into a brainstorming session every year. Eventually they'll cave (so he says).

Or they will run the other direction and make it a nerf gun fight...

[CTbiker105]

Originally Posted by barn34

As a strategy coach, I don't get why this would be perceived as a negative. More robots on your alliance means more tools in your collective toolbox to play with in formulating a gameplan. That'd be awesome.

I'd imagine formulating a game plan with 10 other teams would be difficult, depending on their willingness to work with different ideas pitched to them.

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by martin417

You mean like in Aerial Assist? (please never again!)

I wasn't on Chief Delphi as much last year, but I'm surprised that Aerial Assist has drawn so much ire from the community. To us at 166 it is one of the best games FIRST has created. Sure penalties were kind of crazy, but no game is without its drawbacks.

I know this is a little off-topic, but when Aerial Assist was adored by so many on Chop Shop I am just curious as to why so many people everywhere else dislike it so much.

[Abhishek R]

Honestly, I'd probably only compete just so I don't get fined.

[blazingbronco18]

Originally Posted by Dan Petrovic

I wasn't on Chief Delphi as much last year, but I'm surprised that Aerial Assist has drawn so much ire from the community. To us at 166 it is one of the best games FIRST has created. Sure penalties were kind of crazy, but no game is without its drawbacks.

I know this is a little off-topic, but when Aerial Assist was adored by so many on Chop Shop I am just curious as to why so many people everywhere else dislike it so much.

The biggest reasons I had for disliking it, was due to the crazy amount of penalties and no calls, and the fact that if an alliance partner decided not to show up to a match it was near impossible to pull of a win in qualifiers.

[bobjones227]

Football is a sport that causes its athletes to be fatigued. Fatigued people sweat. People who sweat drink Gatorade at sports events. Gatorade has the word Gator in it. Gator is short for alligator. Alligators swim in the water. Water game 2016 confirmed.

[g_sawchuk]

Employment looks bright for Dozer if football is the game.
#defensebot

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by pmangels17

It often snows here in South Bend on gameday.

Honestly, it often snows here in South Bend on non-gamedays too.

[BethMo]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Or they will run the other direction and make it a nerf gun fight...

A few years ago I refereed at a BunnyBots (a fall off-season event run by the Flaming Chickens) that had the robots armed with nerf guns. Each hit deducted points from the victim's score. Referees had to count hits with clickers.

(Besides shooting each other, the robots were attempting to move an assortment of stuffed rabbits into goals. It was a fun game!)

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by bobjones227

Football is a sport that causes its athletes to be fatigued. Fatigued people sweat. People who sweat drink Gatorade at sports events. Gatorade has the word Gator in it. Gator is short for alligator. Alligators swim in the water. Water game 2016 confirmed.

I thought you were going to stop at sweat being comprised mostly of water, but no, you had to keep going.

Originally Posted by GrifBot

Employment looks bright for Dozer if football is the game.
#defensebot

Football teams need offensive linemen, too.

[one4robots]

Originally Posted by blazingbronco18

Another thing to keep in mind for the 2016 game is that it will be the 25th season of FRC.

This just means a portion of your robot will need to be fabricated from silver.

[Michael Hill]

I've been predicting a football game for the past 3 years and have been disappointed every time it hasn't been one. Oh well, at least I've got some good ideas on game piece manipulation.