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[s_forbes]

I like how none of the field elements are stationary this year, looks like it will make a fun game!

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by s_forbes

I like how none of the field elements are stationary this year, looks like it will make a fun game!

AND they are not balls. i wish i could help out a team with this game.

[jacob07]

The thing i dont understand is why there aren't any points for hanging on the bar. That would be cool to see a bot hanging while its partner is pushing them into their scoring quadrant....

[Jared W]

that would ensure a good strategy too..if you put the paired ones across court in your 2 zones ..and then hung on the bar..it would be harder for your opponent to move it into their zone.

[MGoelz]

Originally Posted by jacob07

The thing i dont understand is why there aren't any points for hanging on the bar. That would be cool to see a bot hanging while its partner is pushing them into their scoring quadrant....

Perhaps they didn't want you to be reminded too much of last year's game...

[Andrew Bates]

Nothing says you cant hang on the bar either. That would make it harder to move so maybe when you get the ends in you base you hang on it to and it might stay in place easier.

[sovierr]

Wow - there are so many different aspects to this game that it is hard to figure out how the game will play out.

[Jonathan Norris]

This is a great game, can't wait to see how it will play out. I would just like to point out the great job the FTC Game Design Committee did with the rule book, keeping the number of rules to a minimum and making it really easy for teams to get into and fully understand the game. Lets just hope in January we can see a rule book in the same style and length.

[jacob07]

Originally Posted by MGoelz

Perhaps they didn't want you to be reminded too much of last year's game...

But it would be so much fun to hang again . maybe we should just do it to do it

[Lizard07]

We were looking at the rule book and i noticed that one of the "specific" rules was that you can't remove ringer from the post. What about from the base?
If anybody knows can you reply?

[Andrew Bates]

It doesn't say anything about removing them from the base so I would assume it's legal. Especially since it declares you can't remove them from the posts. Also I would expect that rings would accidentally fall off when moving the platform around. For an official answer ask the FIRST Q&A forum when it opens.

[Rich Kressly]

Please use the official Q&A system for official game answers. Your team's main contact can access the Q&A login information through the FTC TIMS registration system. Anyone can read the Q&A, but in order to post questions, you need to have paid your FTC registration fee. Once that fee is paid the login and password information becomes available in TIMS within a week of payment.

[KathieK]

Don't you just love how the game design committees always come up with open-ended challenges? That allow us to think of lots of different strategies, offensive and defensive moves? That allow us to play in the game, regardless of our skillsets, rookies and veteran teams alike? Kudos to the committee for volunteering their time and energy so that we can all have a great time playing Quad Quandary!

[dtengineering]

Yeah... this looks like one of the most interesting challenges yet. So many options, so many ways for teams to work together... so many ways for it to all go sideways! In fact, right now I am sitting here trying to figure out how to build a robot to play this game... one of the things I love about VEX is that I can afford to build my own robot at home while my students build theirs at school. Then once they have built their robots I can bring mine in and actually get to play some matches with them on the practice field.

In fact Q.Q. is a good enough game that I'd like to play this with the big robots... perhaps using old car tires as the game pieces.

Jason

[The_Wizard]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

In fact Q.Q. is a good enough game that I'd like to play this with the big robots... perhaps using old car tires as the game pieces.

Jason

That would be interesting, but who knows. We could be playing a big Quad Quandary later this year as the official FRC game.