Next Year's game idea....

[Clell Chatman]

For anyone who does not know what a floppie looks like, and i have to say i thought the manipulation of the sterilite, not to be confused with rubbermade the quality is just not as good, was the most worldly practical.


These are pillows on my bed, beat that first addicts.

[RBrandy]

What about a game with a verticle pole? That would be challenging. Use bean-bag chairs for scoring objects. Have the goals for the bean bag-chairs be closed unless opened during autonomus mode. That all would be cool.

[Ryan Foley]

Originally Posted by RBrandy

What about a game with a verticle pole? That would be challenging. Use bean-bag chairs for scoring objects. Have the goals for the bean bag-chairs be closed unless opened during autonomus mode. That all would be cool.

I would love to see bot's climb vertical things, such as a vertical pole or wall. A pole is a bit more reasonable though, simple scoring too. A bot that has climbed the pole gets the number of points equal to the number of inches the lowest part of the robot is above the floor.

heres a cool midfield barrier, 2ft high vertical poles, spaced 1.5ft apart.

footballs or frisbees would make great scoring objects, easy to get from stores, and hard for robot's to pick up.

I like the idea of very small scoring items, like tennis balls that someone else suggested.

[mtaman02]

Heres a few ideas!

1) All scoring objects will get the value of what there worth only if it fits in the correct keyed space. No 2 scoring objects will be keyed the same way.

2) Autonmous yes many teams like Auton but I would prefer to see it at the end of the match to see if the built robots can score anything by themselves that could change the outcome of a match - difficult yes but i'm sure its dooable!

3) it would be nice to see another combination of games brought together like this years game

[sanddrag]

I always thought it would be cool to see a giant pyramid in the middle of the field and whoever is on the sides at the end of the match gets some points but whoever is on top gets more points. Or maybe the pyramid covers the whole playing field and the scoring objects would have to be passed over it; also, the robots would never be driving level. Or what if it was a stepped pyrimid, with different tiered levels that have to do with scoring. Or what about an inverted pyramid - like the sides of the field are higher than the center and it all goes down into one point - and it is stepped! Or what if each corner of the field was a different level. Or what if the field was like you were inside half of a sphere, like a totally rounded swimming pool (but empty).

What about something like an elevator or a big conveyor belt or a turntable. Now that would be cool. I've always wanted so see powered elements of the field but the cost would never allow it. Come to think of it, the cost would never allow any of my ideas.

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I've always wanted so see powered elements of the field but the cost would never allow it.

just FYI on this comment the center field structure this year cost upwards of 20,000

[Koko Ed]

My wife and I thought FIRST should come up with a game about folding laundry.
I can see it now: They'll be a big to do on Chiefdelphi about teams illegally using cans of starch on the clothes and there will be a bonus 100 points for teams that can make wet clothes dry within two minutes.

[Specialagentjim]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

there will be a bonus 100 points for teams that can make wet clothes dry within two minutes.

Easy, just run the drill motors without heatsinks or fans

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Specialagentjim

Easy, just run the drill motors without heatsinks or fans

50 point penalty for burning the clothes.

[suneel112]

Then the robot will still be in competition even after the season is over.

Heck, I'd keep it to do my laundry, but I would have to fight over it with 80 students (luckily I'm a senior next year )

Great Idea!! Let the robots that we build do the work that we FIRST-ers don't have the time to do.

[Zzyzx]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

50 point penalty for burning the clothes.

Come on! a 50 point penalty? It should be somthing like a 0.5x if you burn the clothing.

[FizMan]

The only problem I see with increasing the match time drastically (i.e. to five minutes) is battery power...

And I really like the idea of having the robot out of view in a particular section with the human player spotter... I doubt it'll ever happen, but I like the uniqueness of it.




Maybe we'll have the robots pick up random, unmarked CD's, pop them in a stereo, and see if they find YMCA.

Not too keen on the idea of disabling opponent's robots though... but again, an interesting idea.


I'd like to see some sort of thing, where you get points for accomplishing a task. Whereas all the games I've been a part of where the score is based on the final configuration of the field, maybe if your bot does something in autonmous mode... or does whatever task, you GET 20 points or something.


EDIT:

I just realized that there were two more pages of posts in here when I replied (thought there was just one) so sorry if I went and said something that the lot of you already discussed in great detail

[tkwetzel]

An idea for goals:
Have goals like the mobile goals this year, but with a tod on them. Have a whole in the top just big enough for the balls. Just under the hole, have something that will hold onto a ball, but loosely enough that a robot could easily push it through. Sort of like a sock...cut open the closed end...you can put a tennis ball in it and it stays in the same position in the sock, but you can push the tennis ball and it will move through the sock. Have something like that that would hold a single ball very loosely (just tight enough to hold the ball). Any balls pushed in the goal belong to the other team, unless you have a ball in the capture device, then you get the points. So you would want to get as many balls in the goal as possible, but if you couldn't get a ball in the sock-like thing at the end of the match, the points would go to the opposite team. And you would have to be able to push the balls gently, otherwise they would just fall through. Teams would also want to protect the top ball near the end of the match, but there should be something like the bar this year that attracts the robots to do something at the end of a match. You would also have to make sure that the goals mentioned above could not be completely stuffed quickly and easily so as the top ball will remain there without a chance of falling. I'm not saying that you can't have enough balls to fill the goal...it just has to be difficult, so good teams could fill teh goal and not have to worry about defending their "top ball". For a multiplier, you could require the goal to be lifted onto a 2' high platform or something like that. This would most likely be a past-paced entertaining game with multiple options scoring and playing as there were this year.

[Zzyzx]

I like the idea of extra poits for certain tasks, like drying clothing

[Ryan F.]

Points for things like....the fisher price motor you used in the drivetrain lasted the entire match

Seriously though...I would really like a a more open field. It would really give advantages to those teams with better drivetrains...and be a good change.