Old FRC Game at BattleCry

[gren737]

How about playing Toriod Terror with Rack N Roll robots?
Let people modify their bots to do things that were allowed back then, like how about intentional tipping?


It's a relatively easy to build goal, small field and most teams probably have a robot currently build that can lift a tube. You could even use RnR tubes, it wouldn't make that big of a difference.

I know I won't be at Battlecry, but c'mon who actually wants to see 99 again??
And besides where would you even get a floppy?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by gren737

How about playing Toriod Terror with Rack N Roll robots?
Let people modify their bots to do things that were allowed back then, like how about intentional tipping?


It's a relatively easy to build goal, small field and most teams probably have a robot currently build that can lift a tube. You could even use RnR tubes, it wouldn't make that big of a difference.

I know I won't be at Battlecry, but c'mon who actually wants to see 99 again??
And besides where would you even get a floppy?

I'm pretty sure that intentional tipping was already illegal in 1997. 1995 (Ramp and Roll) got it eliminated, or so I hear (if my hearing and memory both work right).

And, as for the floppies, you take two appropriately sized disks of the right fabric, sew them together, add the velcro, and then stuff them full of foam peanuts. The puck's harder, but still highly doable.

Don't forget to have a placebo! (A 2009 robot would work.)

[Rob]

Originally Posted by EricH

I'm pretty sure that intentional tipping was already illegal in 1997.

That is not correct, you could legally flip over other robots as long as your intent was not to damage them. Our flipper that year had a plate that stated "Warning T5 in effect"

T5 was the rule that allowed tipping.

I think we have a few floppies left over from 1999. FYI they make great pet beds.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Rob

That is not correct, you could legally flip over other robots as long as your intent was not to damage them. Our flipper that year had a plate that stated "Warning T5 in effect"

T5 was the rule that allowed tipping.

So when did it become illegal? Just out of curiosity. (And to refresh my memory...) Was it the next year?

[Jeff Rodriguez]

We have left over floppies and an arm from 1999, but not a full robot. I don't think we have anything we could mount it to either. I'll look tomorrow night.

[gren737]

Originally Posted by EricH

So when did it become illegal? Just out of curiosity. (And to refresh my memory...) Was it the next year?

The next year. Probably due to 121 and several other robots with forklifts on the front of them that year. Interested note it was the first year that pinning was capped at 10 seconds.

[dk5sm5luigi]

Originally Posted by dk5sm5luigi

Right now we potentially have 126, 176, and 177.

177 just dropped from going to BattleCry and Tim (126) thought we were talking about doing this at next year's event. I am still looking for more robots to do this. An email hopefully will be going out to the currently registered teams later today about this event which may bring some more robots out of the wood work.