2006 Game Thread

[Cyberguy34000]

I'm amazed at you people! Why haven't hamster-powered robots been mentioned yet? It would completely revolutionize the game. Think about it...

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Cyberguy34000

I'm amazed at you people! Why haven't hamster-powered robots been mentioned yet? It would completely revolutionize the game. Think about it...

Hamsters have been specifically disallowed as power sources for the past two years.

It would make things interesting though...

Wetzel

[xxerin]

I think footballs will somehow be involved.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by 663.keith

I see a game that I will spend the week before reading 500 some odd posts trying to figure out what some cryptic clue means such as, "the left footed elephant walked around on Abe Lincolns hat to reach a velocity of 12 feet per second"

Oh man, I can SO turn that into a game!!! 2006 here we come!

-dave

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Oh man, I can SO turn that into a game!!! 2006 here we come!

-dave

Bad Dave!
No Krispy Kreams for you!

[Sakura141]

Hmm... We could end up having a game where you need to have a robot that stacks the Krispy Kreme doughnuts but then another robot can "eat" the doughnut off of the pole thingy and if that happens the robot who's doughnuts were eaten needs to cry cause his doughnuts were eaten and the other robot can do a victory dance. Then we bring out the waffle sticks and maple syrup for center of gravity, balance, and power. ^.^ Yup... and this is all going on while muffins of various types are being thrown on the field. Doughnuts, Muffins, Waffle Sticks, and Syrup, all that's missing is the eggs and OJ and we'd have cooking robots.

[Roland]

It'll be underwater, 3 on 3 on 3, on a triangular field with a side length of 63 feet. The clue will make sense and give clever people a good idea of how the game will work.

Wait, that was supposed to be this year...

Edit: Dave Lavery will accidentally expose the secret of the game in midsummer with some offhand remark.

[Lil' Lavery]

Its so obvious, the robots will have to pilot segways!
Or even aquatic segways!

[Sakura141]

wait... that's just crazy enough to work! Aquatic Segways! Then the drive team will be in scuba gear.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Here are some possibilities:

So assuming that FIRST continues to grow at this rate, both in US and Internationally, we will also have a surge of teams. Which means either 3vs3 or 4vs4 alliance. However, I would like to propose a new idea: I agree with Roland. This new field has to be a triangular shape.

Why??? Because Dave, in creating the 2005 game, gave an absolutely blatant clue towards the 2006 game. Think about these tetras for a second: 4 triangles connected on each edge. Alliances of 4 on a Triangular field! It has to be it!

With this comes the style: a triangular field would be difficult to maintain aquatically. So there I would hold off til 2007, if anybody would like to start a thread about that. However, anothe rpossibility is the Krispy Kreme arena. Circular. It would have a hole in the middle where we'd put the human players. In a donut shape, it could be aquatic. The human players would fish little things out and hand them to the robots. It would be marvelous.

[Winged Wonder]

in 2006 there will be MOVING PARTS ON THE FIELD... (and pink has already discussed the flying robot technique and this is when we'll impliment it.) no balls, boxes, OR tetras either... also, the drivers will be in the CENTER of the field, looking around at the other robots driving around, and the point of the game is to safely get your human player from one side of the field to the other. and yeah, sure, water will be involved.

so we'll have Boats! and helicopters (planes dont have enough room for takeoff) and then normal robots.. althrough eventually some team will design their robot to turn into a Transformer. ooo.. that would be cool...

the possibilities are endless.

[Conor Ryan]

hows this far out idea, every team can have multiple robots. like 3 mini bots or something

[Cyberguy34000]

Originally Posted by Winged Wonder

in 2006 there will be MOVING PARTS ON THE FIELD... (and pink has already discussed the flying robot technique and this is when we'll impliment it.) no balls, boxes, OR tetras either... also, the drivers will be in the CENTER of the field, looking around at the other robots driving around, and the point of the game is to safely get your human player from one side of the field to the other. and yeah, sure, water will be involved.

so we'll have Boats! and helicopters (planes dont have enough room for takeoff) and then normal robots.. althrough eventually some team will design their robot to turn into a Transformer. ooo.. that would be cool...

the possibilities are endless.

I can imagine how you would pick the human player who would have to go through that thing and make out alive

[Winged Wonder]

Originally Posted by Cyberguy34000

I can imagine how you would pick the human player who would have to go through that thing and make out alive

haha yeah... well the human player i would pick would have to be a ninja! :-D and probably be the smallest person on the team. but then you'd have to be careful for any non-gracious professionalism team that would aim to injure your human player... o.o;; human players should be given force fields. or maybe mechs. you never know.

[AIBob]

I would guess that they will do somethingvery similar to this year, but they will probably mix objects so that people have more to do...
Not just boxes or balls or tetras alone. Otherwise people will just repeat the same things... and its all about innovation, so they wont want us to do the same things.