anyone have any ideas about next years game?

[Chris is me]

I'm going to laugh when the game piece is literally tennis balls and people go way off with the brand name or shape of the picture.

[maverickfan138]

I wouldn't be surprised if the game involved a see-saw or multiple see-saws in some way.

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

What if we bribed you with cookies?

I bet krispy kremes would work a lot better.

[Cyberphil]

A few of the kids on our team and I were discussing the possible game pieces and we came up with two very interesting ones:

A safety cone: It has many different angles and would provide a very interesting challenge for all of the teams to lift/move

A 50 Gallon Barell: Another large game piece that would provide a difficult challenge considering it is not spherical

Both of these pieces would be interesting, and I would love to see them in action!

[Bruceb]

Still waiting for stair climbing to be part of the game.
Bruce

[EricH]

For someone with a rookie year of 2004, you seem to have forgotten that 2004 had stairs... 3*2", or 1*6", with an extra 6" step on top of that for extra height. Some teams did in fact use the 2" stairs, while many did the 6" ones.

[JohnFogarty]

ROBOT RELAY RACE!!!! completing different missions....crap that's too much like FLL..

[unionylibertad]

^ i wont say that's a bad idea...maybe frc could borrow concepts from its younger sibings

[Bjenks548]

I think its way more fun to watch the frc games that score like sports, as apposed to watching a robot do missions (no offense to FLL I'm mentoring one of those). I just think that there needs to be more scoring in the games, Lunacy's big moon rocks dumps were really exciting as opposed to scoring 1 point at a time in Breakaway.

[dag0620]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

Lunacy's big moon rocks dumps were really exciting as opposed to scoring 1 point at a time in Breakaway.

While I agree games like you described are probably the gems of the games FIRST has had, even though Breakaway was low scoring it was still had high energy. With the use of defense and Robots often in almost "mini wrestling matches" it was probably one of the best games I've seen since I first started watching FRC games years ago.

My $0.02

[chemipanda]

We have been talking on our team and we think its gonna deal more with the camera and recognizing colors and doing something with those colors

[Chris is me]

Lunacy was honestly really, really boring compared to Breakaway. In Lunacy, scores were rarely close enough for a single action to sway the game, and you couldn't tell if that action was important enough anyway. Breakaway very naturally grew in excitement as the match progressed, starting with a strong autonomous mode and building up to the end game final scores or hangs.

[Zandashia 2420]

so possibly there is a pattern. We have did so many professional sports. I suppose the next one will be similar to hockey, football, or maybe even golf. however this game will be complex with a zillion features

[blackiceskier]

Originally Posted by Zandashia 2420

so possibly there is a pattern. We have did so many professional sports. I suppose the next one will be similar to hockey, football, or maybe even golf. however this game will be complex with a zillion features

Its going to be related to tennis

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by blackiceskier

Its going to be related to tennis

Tennis (or for that matter, any sport tracking a fast moving object) could be quite difficult (and fun )