2006 Game Thread

[Jeff K.]

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.

We shouljd make like it like FIRST Survivor. Your robot competes against other ones to see who's coolest who's shinier. And you program the robots to do different tasks autonomously and the ones that lose are voted off the island....ya...I think I might need some sleep.

[Eria4044]

Originally Posted by Stonefan5271138

We shouljd make like it like FIRST Survivor. Your robot competes against other ones to see who's coolest who's shinier. And you program the robots to do different tasks autonomously and the ones that lose are voted off the island....ya...I think I might need some sleep.

FIRST survivor? And I thought it couldn't get any wierder when someone mentioned green jello and knocking off team mates. I think that at that point the focus will shift from building a robot that performs a certain function to outfitting one with spinners and speakers and making it chrome-plated. Actually, I'd like to see that.

[macurtis]

Originally Posted by Stonefan5271138

We shouljd make like it like FIRST Survivor. Your robot competes against other ones to see who's coolest who's shinier. And you program the robots to do different tasks autonomously and the ones that lose are voted off the island....ya...I think I might need some sleep.

as one of my friends from journalism camp would say:

So basically your robot would have to be like a swiss army knife, right?

[Eria4044]

So basically your robot would have to be like a swiss army knife, right?

Chainsaw...check.
Grinders...check.
Flamethrower...check.

Like a Swiss army knife and sooooo much more.

[Sakura141]

but weapons aren't allowed on the robot though

[Eria4044]

Originally Posted by Sakura141

but weapons aren't allowed on the robot though

Actually, you can do anything you want to your robot...after the competition.

[Vermatitis]

When I read this year's clues, all signs pointed to the number 6 repeatedly. Maybe the challenge for this year was supposed to be to create a demon-summoning robot . . .

[Sakura141]

I don't know if I should be scared or not... but this is FIRST so that explains everything... including the meaning of life!

[macurtis]

The meaning to Life, the universe and everything is 42. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy said so.

[Dorienne]

Ack! *brain starts to hurt and dissolve*

Let's just concentrate on the 2005 game eh?!

>_<;

[macurtis]

but what about those of us who like to speculate???

[Rombus]

I had an interesting thought about the 2k6 games, What about something like PVC Pipes as the game objects? Something like 1'-2' sections capped at each end, with various goals to put them in different ways. I don’t think FIRST has ever done a game with this kind of game object

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Rombus

I had an interesting thought about the 2k6 games, What about something like PVC Pipes as the game objects? Something like 1'-2' sections capped at each end, with various goals to put them in different ways. I don’t think FIRST has ever done a game with this kind of game object

Something like this?


Wetzel

[Denman]

Well, what have we done?
We have put things on top of each other, on top of goals, in goals , hung from things. thus i think we will be putting stuff on other robots, takign them out of goals and dropping from things....

[Eria4044]

Originally Posted by Denman

Well, what have we done?
We have put things on top of each other, on top of goals, in goals , hung from things. thus i think we will be putting stuff on other robots, takign them out of goals and dropping from things....

Well, look at the game this year. It's very creative. Instead of balls or boxes, we have tetras. FIRST has had something different each year, so I don't think it's going to run out of ideas any time soon.