Next Year's Game?

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

I would say any game where an object is put into a goal: FTC Face Off and VRC Elevation are good examples. In Quad Quandry, the scoring object was placed around the goal, but it would have been a coin flip as to whether descoring was more difficult than scoring.

Yes but one has to look at scale. If you scaled out the FTC field into FRC and just put large bins out..that would be HUGE. I'm not saying it's not possible, heck that might actually be fun, but I'm not sure how likely that is.

And I think that descoring would have been harder this year than scoring. I can't comment on previous years, but the main problem in '07 with the 'spoiler' was that it was so difficult to put on, that 'mostly' teams didn't bother with them.

As far as descoring concerns, I feel that it should be a robot ability, and it should definitely be harder than scoring, but to a certain degree.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by DtD

Less human interaction. And more exciting. For our team, it was pretty much mutual that Lunacy was nowhere near as exciting as Overdrive.

~DtD

For our team, it was quite the opposite. We found that Overdrive was Overboring, and Lunacy was pure awesome contained in a rectangle-type area.

[WRG]

I'm thinking a water involved game.

[youngWilliam14]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

'mostly' teams didn't bother with them

i can proudly say my team enjoyed using them

Originally Posted by synth3tk

For our team, it was quite the opposite. We found that Overdrive was Overboring, and Lunacy was pure awesome contained in a rectangle-type area.

i honestly thought that both were boring. overdrive was nothing but driving in circles, and lunacy was a really bad car wreck that wouldn't stop happening ><

Originally Posted by WRG

I'm thinking a water involved game.

human players load water balloons into their robots... *mischievous grin*

[Chris is me]

I think Lunacy is as close as anyone will get to a water game. We had soaking carpets and everything!

[demosthenes2k8]

Soaking carpets? Did I miss something?

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by demosthenes2k8

Soaking carpets? Did I miss something?

You and me both. There must be quite a story behind such a statement.

[NorviewsVeteran]

At some regionals they watered down the carpets to keep down static buildup.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

You and me both. There must be quite a story behind such a statement.

Look here to see Dean Kamen watering down the carpet at GSR (Yay ... watergame )

[Lavapicker]

How about a moving target suspended from above with random, not predicted, movement. It would make for some mean sensors needed during autonomous to find it. Or, you could have robotic tetherball!

[Dragon Princess]

i think an area where the robot has to use complete autonomous to find a colored object. Then it goes to the driver station to where they have a choice to fire the colored object over a wall into a target like in aim high, and then go back for more colored object into autonomous; or they could go over the wall to take away the other teams colored object in a teli-op mode like the semi-autonomous of overdrive; or the robot could hang on a constantly rising bar to gain an increase of points as long as it hangs on, if it keeps the colored object for the entire time then during the last 20 seconds, while still hanging, it could shoot the object at a goal higher up for extra points, similar to the super-cell was this year. There can only be one robot on the bar between both alliances so in the beginning it's a race, and when ever a robot falls off the bar immediately drops down again and gives the other team a chance to grab onto the bar.

[youngWilliam14]

Originally Posted by Dragon Princess

...a robot falls off the bar...

does anyone else cringe at this? it's a good idea, but i'd hate to find my robots frame seriously damaged

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by youngWilliam14

does anyone else cringe at this? it's a good idea, but i'd hate to find my robots frame seriously damaged

It'd be a seriously cool challenge. Robust robots at their best.

[delsaner]

Originally Posted by Lavapicker

How about a moving target suspended from above with random, not predicted, movement.

I really like that idea, but the idea of the target miandering around may be a bit too difficult. Realistically, a moving target with a set course sounds like a fair challenge, but that is just my point of view.

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by Lavapicker

How about a moving target suspended from above with random, not predicted, movement.

Cool Idea - Maybe just a hoop supported by a single rope. It starts stationary, but once it gets hit...