The 2010 Curve Ball

[Peter Matteson]

My hope is the the curveball we have to deal with is learning to throw a knuckle ball with the scoring object.

I've suggested a weight reduction many times in the past because I feel the robots already way too much, but I've resigned myself to the fact the robot size/weight just won't change significantly for a variety of reasons. (field size, visibility for spectators, electronics sizing, shipping and handling etc...)

The best curveball they could give us in my opinion is new game object shape or size that we haven't dealt with yet. A bulk/mass moving type of challege where we move popcorm kernel or something like that and score by weight could work as well. Also working with smaller balls like super balls, tennis balls, etc would create a new challenge for us on the larger robots..