**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3

[Tetraman]

Tetras are returning! My CD name will continue to mean something!

[joyflying]

4 teams to an allience?

[Scott Carpman]

Originally Posted by joyflying

4 teams to an allience?

Probably not, since the size of the field can't expand due to arena limitations. It could get a tiny bit bigger, but not enough to support 8 bots on one field. The traffic would be insane.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

So Paul Copioli is the game piece for 2008. Expect a sample Copioli clone to be shipped with your Kit of Parts. Be careful - they bite!

That ties in well with Copioli Square in Boston... (He's nerdy maybe, but not a square..)

Originally Posted by EricH

Vet: 2 definitions. 1. Short for veteran. 2. Short for veterinarian.

3rd definition: To subject to thorough examination or evaluation


How about it being a wordplay? For example, a smiling line for housing could be a toothy Res queue, or "to the rescue". (Lame, I know, but YOU come up with better!

Vet hurdles FIRST tetra
Doc over pipes
SEAL leaps point
Dave jumps piece
Andy bounds blue (red?)
JVN hops PVC
Kamen tops pyramid (*)
old vaults structure
pro clears fun
GP overcomes adversity



*Yes, I know a tetra is not a pyramid.

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[DAN1504]

Maybe the hurdle is the traffic on the field

[Tetraman]

You know how Hurdles tip down, but in order to really make the points, you have to go over them without hitting them at all?

What if Tetras are going to have a specific side that is has to stand on in order to get the points?

[organman42]

accoding to dictionary.com:
hur·dle (noun)
1. a portable barrier over which contestants must leap in certain running races, usually a wooden frame with a hinged inner frame that swings down under impact to prevent injury to a runner who does not clear it.
2. hurdles, (used with a singular verb) a race in which contestants must leap over a number of such barriers placed at specific intervals around the track.

perhaps a wall in the center of the playing field that must be crossed to score?

[rhoads2234]

Vet can also mean practical so then Hurdling well according to dictionary.com it can mean to clear so maybe it is the most practical way of clearing the field of tetras?
FIRST Tetra- what was the fourth FIRST game ever? - 1996 - Hexagon Havoc could someone explain this game?
and what are the games that are divisable by 4 (ex.1992,1996,2000,2004)?
1992 - Maze Craze
1996 - Hexagon Havoc
2000 - Co-opertition FIRST
2004 - FIRST Frenzy raising the bar

What do these games have in common? (last '07 was my rookie year so I did not play in any of them) What were the winning strategies?

Note: I answered some of my own questions but not all of them

[EricH]

Originally Posted by rhoads2234

FIRST Tetra- what was the fourth FIRST game ever? - 1996 - Hexagon Havoc could someone explain this game?
and what are the games that are divisable by 4 (ex.1992,1996,2000,2004)?
1992 - Maze Craze
1996 - Hexagon Havoc
2000 - Co-opertition FIRST
2004 - FIRST Frenzy raising the bar

What do these games have in common? (last '07 was my rookie year so I did not play in any of them) What were the winning strategies?

Very little, unless you count large central structures.

Oh, and that 1992 game would be Maize Craze. Played on a field with corn of some form all over. No more.

[whlspacedude]

Vet hurdling FIRST tetra

too EASY!!!!!!!!!

Vet Refers to Veteran

Veteran HP's Get to Throw Tetras!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lukevanoort]

Originally Posted by rhoads2234

Vet can also mean practical so then Hurdling well according to dictionary.com it can mean to clear so maybe it is the most practical way of clearing the field of tetras?
FIRST Tetra- what was the fourth FIRST game ever? - 1996 - Hexagon Havoc could someone explain this game?
and what are the games that are divisable by 4 (ex.1992,1996,2000,2004)?
1992 - Maze Craze
1996 - Hexagon Havoc
2000 - Co-opertition FIRST
2004 - FIRST Frenzy raising the bar

What do these games have in common? (last '07 was my rookie year so I did not play in any of them) What were the winning strategies?

Note: I answered some of my own questions but not all of them

They all used balls.... Of course that doesn't really say much, IIRC, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, and 2007 were the only years not to use balls, which means almost 70% of FRC games used balls as the game pieces.

[abeisgreat]

Ok heres my idea. http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/foosball/vhft/02vhft.html VHFT is an online foosball things So VHFT being Vet Hurdling FIRST Tetra makes me think foosball of some sort?

[rhoads2234]

Originally Posted by EricH

Very little, unless you count large central structures.

Oh, and that 1992 game would be Maize Craze. Played on a field with corn of some form all over. No more.

Maybe there will be a large Hurdle-like scoring platform.... By hurdle like I mean that it can be knocked down if you run into it but it comes back up on its own...

there could be 2 central scoring stations (one for each alliance) that can be knocked over to spill the scoring element (ex.balls) on the ground one of the the teams in the alliance would need to protect their station....
Does that make sense?

[organman42]

The summer olympics took place these years in Barcelona Spain, Atlanta Georgia, Sydney Australia, Athens Greece, and later this year in Beijing, China.

They are also leap years. Does that mean something extra will be added to every n games?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by rhoads2234

Maybe there will be a large Hurdle-like scoring platform.... By hurdle like I mean that it can be knocked down if you run into it but it comes back up on its own...

Hurdles don't come up on their own.