2007 Game Thread

[Tim Arnold]

I personally predict that the 2007 game objective will involve real life situations. The teams create a robot that in autonomous mode can be tossed by midgets (see how you feel about it!) and land in a pool of jello (always wanted to do that). After the landing, the team takes over the controls, they are required to repeat "Toy Boat" 20 times while the national anthem is playing in the background. The alliances will be 6 teams vs 1, and will include clam bakes and halloween trick or treating.

[Tim Arnold]

Originally Posted by robosapien

I personally predict that the 2007 game objective will involve real life situations. The teams create a robot that in autonomous mode can be tossed by midgets (see how you feel about it!) and land in a pool of jello (always wanted to do that). After the landing, the team takes over the controls, they are required to repeat "Toy Boat" 20 times while the national anthem is playing in the background. The alliances will be 6 teams vs 1, and will include clam bakes and halloween trick or treating.

Looking back, that was pretty much the worst post ever made.

[blue_crew]

i think it would be cool to see some kind of drawbridge (2 of them) that would start the game raised and the alliances would have to lower by completing a task during automous. if no one got the bridge down during auto., it would lower 45 sec. into the round.
you wouldnt have to cross the bridge, b/c there would be an alternate route around it but it would be difficult and slow.
might as well make it a CTF game as well.

[mechanicalbrain]

I think I'm going to go run around pretending to be a airplane now, at least until they pick me up and put me in a nice padded room

Originally Posted by Rabbit222

What do you get when you mix water and sparks? Zaaaaaaaaapppppppppppp

Actually thats a common misconception. Most electronics will just die quietly, that or blow up in a shower of sparks but thats normally high power electronics (Ive had both happen but neither on purpose). Where you get that type of sound is when electricity crosses air and then it's more of a THHHWWWAAAAAPP! <--- me being hit by a THHHWWWAAAAAPP!

Tell you what since you're all so curious ill pass on some insider information. Next years competition will guarantee the appearance of automatons that will employ electromagnetic radiation. Good luck to all on the 2006 competition.

[Eria4044]

Seriously, now...it will involve balls, have a short autonomous period, have two alliances of three or three of two, have captureable goals, and might (just might) feature gracious professionalism in some way.

[c-squared_2006]

I can't help feel that we're getting ahead of ourselves, but it's so tempting. I think programming is going to become a bigger part. Maybe eventually we'd have a longer automonous period. I'm still waiting for a ice competition, but I don't think that's likely. I am also still waiting for a circular field.

[Freddy Schurr]

Already, we are not even into the second week of building and we are already talking about the 2007 game. Anyway, next year's game will be Helicopters, yep you hear right. They going to have to fly over the field and try to lift up 200 pound triangles and put it on a goal. Who knows what going to be for the 2007 game! Maybe HP will actually be on the field.

[SenseiSkins]

I htink that the competition will have us making robots to make robots?

[gondorf]

i think that the 2007 game will be capture the flag and bring it to your goal. this will be played in the water with an air factor. also robots will be able to shoot projectiles at other robots and ah dig holes in the ground to put the flag in?

ok its a little farfetched but lets try this and see how many teams don't end up with a burning piece of swiss cheese metal floating in water with dirt in the gears and with a broken propellor. on the top might be a shredded flag.

strange disturbing thought of a game

***hides inside calculator fortress***

[Eric Scheuing]

Water baloon fight.

[mechanicalbrain]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Aaacckkk! Guurrkkk! Sssnorrrrkkkkk! Brain ... explode ... will. AAAArrrrggghhh!! Must ... not ... think ... about ... 2007 ... yet. Uuurrgghh!!! Still ... have .... to ... resolve ... how ... to ... pack ... parachutes ... for ... 2006 ... Ooorrrkkggnn!!

We should start recording Dave Lavery's quotes and disect them for hints. I did A google search on some of his words Aaacckkk! Guurrkkk! Sssnorrrrkkkkk!. Mr. Lavery is dropping them left and right. Im still clueless about Ooorrrkkggnn.

[Alekat]

I'd like to see next year's game with human players from all teams in the middle of the field (protected of course) with nothing but a dashboard interface to communicate with their team. Or how about autonomous period is moved to the LAST ten or fifteen seconds of a match.

[Arkorobotics]

The game is hot potato or robots swimming a pool of mercury...

[Eria4044]

robots swimming a pool of mercury

Walking on mercury, maybe, but a robot so dense it sinks in mercury would probably exceed the weight limit. It would be an interesting game, though...

[jdiwnab]

Originally Posted by Eria4044

Walking on mercury, maybe, but a robot so dense it sinks in mercury would probably exceed the weight limit. It would be an interesting game, though...

Dense doesn't necessarly mean heavy. Just heavy for it's size.