Ftc Kick off 2008

[Overyourhead]

here's a hint. the video is puled down though. Thanks Unlimited.
http://ftcunlimited.blogspot.com/200...-face-off.html


I was going to go to the kick off, but I forgot to set my alarm clock.. oops

[smartkid]

Crap, who pulled the video?

[Troubled]

I don't get why some areas get the game early and others have to wait?

Anyway, I was a little disappointed. The game doesn't look very hard, but that does not look like a cheap or easy field to build. I really don't like the autonomous start. How do they decide which robot gets to start on the field? I'm sure we will always want to. Maybe I'll like it more after we review it some, but for now, I think past games were better.

[smartkid]

Please someone describe the game for us!

[ttldomination]

I agree with smartkid, how about a little description, or waiting until the game is announced to all of us before you guys start talking about the game on here please.

[cheif039]

Clicking the red box at the bottom of the blog reveals the front page of the game manual, with a brief overview. Looks legit but could be a really good imitation.

[smartkid]

This is either the funniest prank ever or someone's in trouble.

[dsmason807]

Relax -- it looks legit.

Some regions had events where they were showing the game animation, field, and game pieces today. This is clearly a picture of a flyer from one of those events. I guess they took down the video as a courtesy -- that, or FIRST threatened to taunt them a second time, or some such.

Regardless, FTC doesn't have quite the time constraints that FRC does, so I personally wouldn't get too worked up about this being a prank, nor about some teams getting to see the game early, whether via an event or a leak.

A day or two in FTC just isn't a big deal. I personally have very little faith that things will actually be posted by 5:00pm, so I don't really plan to start downloading and reading until tomorrow morning anyway.

After which I look forward to a rewarding season of higher prices for field and robot parts, less variety of mechanisms, and more questionable maturity of wireless control platforms as compared to last year.

Not that I'm pessimistic. :-)

[dsmason807]

And yet I stand corrected:

http://www.usfirst.org/community/ftc...nt.aspx?id=962

Enjoy. :-)

[ttldomination]

Wow, talk about timing, I must say good job to FTC for this one. I logged at 5 PM exactly, and bam, the game was there. .

And i enjoyed. .

[chaoticprout]

Check out the robot requirements in Section 4. Seems like...there are some issues with the file, or something wrong with pdf reader.

[ttldomination]

Why what's wrong?

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by Overyourhead

here's a hint. the video is puled down though. Thanks Unlimited.
http://ftcunlimited.blogspot.com/200...-face-off.html


I was going to go to the kick off, but I forgot to set my alarm clock.. oops

I'm just curious, isn't the kickoff at 5pm today? If so how do they already have the information?

[smartkid]

The local sites (or whatever FIRST calls them) get everything including the field in advance. I guess one of the sites decided to open there doors early.