Next Year's Game?

[NorviewsVeteran]

Well, Crackerjack just went back to their old label design for a while and sells them in 3-packs at Walmart...

Could be a throwback and/or using 3's in a new way.

[bobwrit]

I'd like to see a cube as a game peice, personaly. Maybe a dynamicly changing feild(height of sections, steepness of ramps, ect). Also maybe a diffrent feild shape, like a hexagon.

[NorviewsVeteran]

As cool as it would be, the problem with a dynamic field is the cost to practice.

[ttldomination]

Oh god...the thread is slowly growing faster...

Well, I'm guessing the game element will be a fragile object, but easily fixable. But at least we know one thing, the carpet's back!!!!!!!!! .

"We’ve laid out carpet salvaged from Championship and set up field #1" - Bill

CALLED IT!!!

[EricH]

Crackerjack can also be a term for "crazy", which is what you guys are. Go take some time off from FIRST for a couple of months. You'll need it. Don't believe me? You will in a few years.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Oh god...the thread is slowly growing faster...

Well, I'm guessing the game element will be a fragile object, but easily fixable. But at least we know one thing, the carpet's back!!!!!!!!! .

"We’ve laid out carpet salvaged from Championship and set up field #1" - Bill

CALLED IT!!!

To be fair there was even carpet this year. They just put the regolith on top of it. I don't see them using anything other than carpet though. Every other surface seems to be similar to carpet or regolith, either low or high traction...

[youngWilliam14]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Every other surface seems to be similar to carpet or regolith, either low or high traction...

they could take it to extremes and cover the field in ice

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by youngWilliam14

they could take it to extremes and cover the field in ice

Logistically speaking, ice would be a pain in the butt to maintain, probably harder than a water game, or what not, but it's a nice thought.

[youngWilliam14]

if we can build a ski resort in the middle of a desert, we can maintain ice
http://www.skidubai.com/

[demosthenes2k8]

Good old Dubai...you gotta love their projects.

I like the dynamic field idea, but it's too impractical to do...maybe a game where the robots have to open a box of Crackerjacks and get the prize out, without crunching up the jacks, and putting them into a bowl?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by demosthenes2k8

Good old Dubai...you gotta love their projects.

I like the dynamic field idea, but it's too impractical to do...maybe a game where the robots have to open a box of Crackerjacks and get the prize out, without crunching up the jacks, and putting them into a bowl?

mmmmmm....


The field reset crews would love that

[demosthenes2k8]

But it'd be so tasty! And it involves Cracker Jacks!

[Tyler Hicks]

I don't think that FIRST is going to have two years in a row of Non-Carpet Floor.

I think that the field is going to be a symmetrical obsticle course, and robots will have to retrieve a game peice from the other side. Sorta like CTF, but better, and with robots!

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Oh god...the thread is slowly growing faster...

Well, I'm guessing the game element will be a fragile object, but easily fixable. But at least we know one thing, the carpet's back!!!!!!!!! .

"We’ve laid out carpet salvaged from Championship and set up field #1" - Bill

CALLED IT!!!

We also learned that the carpet is very absorbent. It can be moistened frequently without damage.

-dave



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[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by dlavery

We also learned that the carpet is very absorbent. It can be moistened frequently without damage.

-dave



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