FRC Game in 2009

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Manyu192

If you look closely at the background, there's a watermarked shape and some text... its hard to read, i think there are a couple of pages stacked on top of each other... the newspaper that fish is wrapped in maybe?

I think the game will work like a fish market, you have to throw slippery fish into buckets...

Noticed on the first page of the game hint thread...

I would suggest that any discussion of the game hint be kept in that thread.

[The_Fons]

Originally Posted by GGCO

Notice that the picture is of a fish out of water. Not in the water. What does this mean? Maybe it is just my imagination. Any thoughts?

Yeah, good call. Maybe people will stop thinking water game. FIRST robots and water... that doesn't sound like the safest idea. But i think it would suggest an unnatural environment for a robot, driver, human player, etc. Can someone say OBSTACLE COURSE!! That would be awesome.

[zakk]

Originally Posted by The_Fons

Yeah, good call. Maybe people will stop thinking water game. FIRST robots and water... that doesn't sound like the safest idea. But i think it would suggest an unnatural environment for a robot, driver, human player, etc. Can someone say OBSTACLE COURSE!! That would be awesome.

This much makes sense, because if you look at the games, there is usually something in common between one season and the next.
Stack Attack-had ramps
Aim High- hand ramps, and balls which had to go up high
The Next Game (forgot the name of it)- had to put stuff up high again, and bonus points for being elevated at the end
Overdrive- had balls again, and they were up high
So, I'm thinking that 2009 will have to do with something being up high again, and the obstacle course sounds about right, and possibly a circular portion of the playing field?

[lingomaniac88]

Okay... but how would the fish come into play?

[PirateIsrael354]

i think this years mission would have to do with under water.
but another idea that would be cool is something to do with rocks!
cant wait until Kickoff!!!

[Brandon_L]

when we got the new control system and opened the box, we took everything out. When we found the camera the first thing we did was Google if the fish lived in caves or not. Apparently it doesn't, but if it did we thought possibly the robot had to go behind some sort of thing that blocks the drivers view like a curtain or something and have an obstacle course on the other side or some sort of task.......but the fish lives in open water......

EDIT: this is my first post with that sig, so I was kinda testing it. Its a bit big, I know. I'm downsizing it.

[xnaut]

Originally Posted by mikecombes

well we are supposed to have cameras so we started brain storming like this corn maze that we can't see but the crowd can see and we have to drive around using a camera on the robot. (just a thought probally not gunna happen ((THIS year at least lol)))

as part of a beta team..... i noticed significant delay when using the camera and driving at the same time(sending back images while sending in joystick data) so the thought of driving while looking at a monitor seeing what your camera can see is a nice one but at the time is not reality....

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by xnaut

as part of a beta team..... i noticed significant delay when using the camera and driving at the same time(sending back images while sending in joystick data) so the thought of driving while looking at a monitor seeing what your camera can see is a nice one but at the time is not reality....

Was it a bandwidth issue? Is it possible that by lowering the resolution of the images or lowering the framerate you'd be able to drive by camera?

[Seat Ninja]

What about a game with pool noodles. You would have to gather them from an overhead storage area or off the floor and put them through holes in the player stations. I saw a similar idea on a FIRST chatroom somewhere and refined it (if you can call it that). What do you think?

[Browzilla]

That sounds obnoxious. And noodles, as our team discovered with the mandatory bumper requirements, painful for the teams who live in colder climates to find in the middle of January.

[yara92]

I guess it will be 3 mission :
A. hung something like the fish in the circle
B. hang sum thing to the filed using the cam camera and it is like the fish is moving not n one place
C. giving the anther robot help
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[Seat Ninja]

Originally Posted by Browzilla

That sounds obnoxious. And noodles, as our team discovered with the mandatory bumper requirements, painful for the teams who live in colder climates to find in the middle of January.

well, getting the pool boodles wouldn't be a problem for most teams as several would be supplied in the KOP (game pieces always are). If your team wanted more then it might be a problem. FIRST would probably find a supplier for the competitions where they would need large quantities. They could also be only 2-foot or so sections of noodle. And believe me, I know how hard it is to find pool noodles in the winter, I live in Maryland.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Seat Ninja

supplied in the KOP (game pieces always are).

No they aren't. I believe it was the Poof balls that were an extra-cost option.

[Seat Ninja]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

No they aren't. I believe it was the Poof balls that were an extra-cost option.

oh.. i thought it was an included thing. I was a freshman that year so i wasn't "in" on the finances of our club so you could be right.

[idk]

i think that the fish represents scales, like the vex competition. in the second hint, minnetonka is a lake. i dont know what central in phoenix. the other two places are theatres, like performing arts. i dont know what this means. one of the mentors for my team says the game has something to do with zabonies.