[FRC Blog] Surprise!

[Shrub]

They're all varying amounts of pizza.
It's a pizza game.
Nothing is real.

No but in all honesty, I hope there's no actual game pieces just to see what kind of game that could be.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Shrub

Nothing is real.

No, that's Strawberry Fields.



Wait, they did corn in '92, maybe so!

[scca229]

Originally Posted by DareDad

Wait, is that why the FMS sound effects are all polka music this year?

This made me cringe at first since I also spend the entire event on the field..but then remembered that Weird Al is a hero of mine. Bring on the Polka!

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

**Shudders while seeing visions of PVC shards flying through the air**

There was a terrifying match on Hopper last year where a team's canburgler broke and a piece went flying about thirty feet behind one of the alliance walls. No repeats please.

[jaredhk]

[gegozi]

Originally Posted by kyle_hamblett

Litter = bumper material

lol, but isn't the litter already bumper material?

[BenGuy]

Originally Posted by jaredhk

Where did this come from?

[T3_1565]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Where did this come from?

It's a photoshopped version of the 2013 game.

The castles look wonderful though

[jodge1706]

I have great confidence that the 2nd item is some sort of flag/flag pole combination. maybe some sort of 2" x 2" flag pole that's 48 in long, item number 3 being a battery and number 1 being a tote.

[Cash4587]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Emphasis mine:



Edit: ... and 2015 didn't say what you could or couldn't make them from, apart from the general robot rules.

Cool. That is good to know.

[Monochron]

Originally Posted by jodge1706

I have great confidence that the 2nd item is some sort of flag/flag pole combination. maybe some sort of 2" x 2" flag pole that's 48 in long, item number 3 being a battery and number 1 being a tote.

Why do you have that confidence? What are you basing your confidence off of?

[jman4747]

It is aluminum extrusion like last time. If memory serves it was donated by Novelis. They may be switching to square/rectangle tube instead of the angle.

[jaredhk]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Where did this come from?

T3_1565 is correct--I made it from the 2013 game.

Originally Posted by T3_1565

It's a photoshopped version of the 2013 game.

The castles look wonderful though

Thanks!

[cglrcng]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

There was a terrifying match on Hopper last year where a team's canburgler broke and a piece went flying about thirty feet behind one of the alliance walls. No repeats please.

Very first match of the elims & about 6" to the right of my (and left of a partner ref's), head(s) actually (2015 Hopper official scorekeeper). Cheesecaking by 987's clan....Only it wasn't a small shard, it was more like a spinning death star about as big as my stretched open hand. (Getting a very close up 3 dimensional view as it zoomed past about the same speed outbound as it did heading down toward the can...and then what seemed like a very slow motion repeating loop playing over & over in my mind.....But, usually ending with very different results beyond luckily missing the both of us).

I then very quickly realized that the official scorekeeper(s) had absolutely nothing to possibly score during the auto phase of the game and spent the next few matches during the auto period low & behind the corner of the scorers table during the can wars, but always at pad/post w/ clicker in hand ready for the tele portion of the match...The act (as expected), did repeat at least once more a few matches later, and traveled the same exact path head high and close to her head again. Very scary when only protected by mere safety glasses....It did warrant your attention to say the very least.

[Sperkowsky]

For those who want to see the match here's a link to the video https://youtu.be/CKO7-nln6qM the piece flys a about 0:30 when the second arm flys back up.